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Give me ideas.

Examples:
Swallowing your own spit.
Putting on socks in the morning.

This is possibly for a game.

Breathing, blinking, pumping blood through my body with my heart, thinking, posting on TIGS, making crude jokes, etc.

Moving my mouse with my hand

Nailbiting.

once i left a cup of water right beside my monitor and i spent like 10 seconds trying to grab the cup with my mouse

you have never, not once, made a joke

Tweeting.
Slouching.
Turning off my alarms in my sleep.

Throwing my bag over my shoulder instead of just putting it on.
Tossing my clothes in the air to turn them back when they're inside-out.
Tapping the top of soda cans before I open them.
Consciously avoiding ice cream sticking to the roof of my mouth because it causes terrible pains after a few seconds.

Speaking in falsetto to my cats.

Making noise. If there is a clicky pen in my hand, or something to drum my fingers on, or ... (the list goes on for a long time) Sometimes I drive people nuts with that and don't even realize that I'm doing it.

I do a lot of nigh autonomous things I consider mundane, but a lot of people don't seem to agree.  Therefore, I can't really judge.

Apparently the fact that I bark when I hiccup and meow when I yawn is odd, at least according to #tigirc.  I never really thought about it until my friends started copying me.  :-\

I constantly check that my bag is closed/my pins have not fallen off my bag/nothing has fallen out of my pockets, without even thinking.
Usually when I brush past people or I end up running for a bus/etc while carrying my stuff.

Saved me from losing things a few times, so I don't mind the redundancy.

i love when you reply to phubans' posts

I grind my teeth.

it usually takes me a minute or so to realize I'm doing it. and I do it nearly all day. it is literally the worst habit of all time.

I've done the same but trying to click on my monitor's on/off button.

Googling stuff.

Playing with my hair. I have long hair, and I play with it while working on something. I don't even notice I'm doing it until someone says something about it.

I too, pick my lips.

Moving my leg up and down when I'm sitting.

What is a joke?

A miserable little pile of secrets!

Interfacing with a computer. Sometimes I forget that there's a mouse in my right hand and a keyboard under my left and it clicks in my mind, "Why is the computer screen doing what I want it to? .. Oh, that's right, I'm pressing the buttons, that's why."

Checking my fly at least once after leaving a restroom in 30 second intervals. Don't ask; I have no idea.

Turn off my alarm after it goes off and then go back to sleep... idk why I don't hit snooze either.

It's best to do that at the precise harmonic frequency of an object sitting on your neighbor's desk. I know from personal experience that they love that!

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/resonance.png)

Whenever I click on a link, I instantly click somewhere blank on the page so the little border around the link disappears.
Also, sometimes I subconsciously highlight text on a page as I read it. If I accidentally go to another page while that text is highlighted, I go back and unhighlight it before continuing.
...Something is terribly wrong with me. :-\

I usually highlight text randomly while I'm reading it. It annoys the heck out people trying to read over my shoulder.

catchphrases. the borrowed with of others. staggering repetition devoid of meaning, effort. a scaffold erected with the intent of building a laugh, by unskilled craftsmen whose arthritic hands balk at the task and whose brains slosh in their cavernous skulls blissfully ignorant.

why do people do this. why do people put text on pictures? they presume the format is funny, perhaps. they're wrong. is the content funny? assuredly not. from sea to shining sea of faceless, thoughtless robots, parroting each other like a boring hal script. this is the internet, and it is you.

super joe i would like to be your student or something can apply at the super joe school of having a bionic arm i guess

go for it, but tuition costs you an arm and... aw forget it.

god bless super joe

i have two regular arms, i'm not qualified to teach at such an institution

Best comic.

scratching my left eyebrow

Sometimes I catch myself with my mouth open.

slowly deteriorate as every ounce of remaining potential dissipates into the relentless void.

Make faces. Not when I'm forcing a smile or knowingly expressing something, all the other times when I don't even realize it and my faces unconsciously expresses disdain, boredom, worry, frustration. Also, some other people seem to make the same face or similar faces all the time but I have never seen the same face twice in a reflection.

strangle hookers.

Making rectangles on my desktop.

I'll do that when I'm really fucking bored, or I forget what I was going to do.

I recently picked up one of these mice with a trackball in them and I find that I keep using the trackball to make my cursor go in circles while I wait for slow websites to load.

being dum

walking every time i'm deep in thought. sometimes if i'm sitting down i just stand up and start walking without noticing

Thinking.
Constantly, all the time thinking, whether it be about problems, me, game design, idea, whatever. I CANNOT STOP THINKING.
THE THOUGHTS
THEY FLOW EVERYWHERE

Editing my posts. I edit the vast majority of my posts soon after I post them (soon enough so that it doesn't display it as having been edited), usually for wording that I find awkward when reading over my posts.

Edit: And yes, I edited this post too, and not just to add this sentence. Actually, this is my second time editing this post.

Talking in a cartoon toucan voice or different voices (even to strangers)...It's a disease I tell ya

also:

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Looking at things and wondering what they'd look like if they were pixel art.

That was so much cooler in win2k and earlier where sometimes the selection box would glitch out and get stuck and you could make abstract art out of non-refreshing boxes.

 Edit: whoops, my bad. :facepalm:

I take deep breaths quite often without reason that are accompanied by a slow exhale.
Like sighing but without using my vocal chords.
Or a yawn without opening my mouth a ton.

Yannowhatimean?

:exhaleeeeeeeh:
 :concerned:

YOU SAY JUST AS I GORGE ON MY DELICIOUS NAIL AND NOW I stopped and feel bad about it ...  :concerned:

Drumming my fingers on my desk. My coworkers usually wear headphones so I assume they don't mind....  :whome:

Rubbing my feet together or on things.  Pacing.  Bouncing foot/leg.

Wasting too much time on the internet... or something like that... too often.

Ah yes, I remember doing that! I still create rectangles on my desktop and on pretty much anything else that has area selection like that all the time. Usually I draw rectangles around significant parts of the screen (for example, my desktop icons or the Windows logo in the center of the default Windows 7 desktop). When reading some things, especially dense blocks of text, I highlight whatever part I happen to be reading or have just read.

I also repeatedly press the right and down arrow keys, as well as the End key, when editing text like in this box where I'm typing this post, ensuring that the cursor is really past the last character.

When saving a Word document I usually press Ctrl+S way more than I need to, like 4 or 5 times instead of just once.

Nailbiting's my big one. I endlessly get distracted and google and wiki stuff and time is gone before I realise it.

For me it's eating snacks.  If there's a snack on my desk I will snack on it without really realizing it.

Drinking drinks and then finding out there is none left because I've consumed them so fast.

That explains why the tea's always gone. :concerned:

Thinking too, usually it takes a long time for me to get asleep but during the day I can sleep like a baby in just a few minutes.
Checking if I have my wallet, keys and cellphone in my pocket. When I had glasses adjusting them automatically was a given (After I had surgery in my eyes I tried to adjust imaginary glasses like for a month).
Scratching.

About 2 months ago mine were broken for a few days and I did the same... It was damn irritating.

 :concerned:

I do pretty much all of these.

I am very much guilty of this, but instead I try to make squares with pixel perfect equal sides.

Also, I really like to fill my recycle bin with hundreds of GB worth of trash, and slowly watch it disappear whenever I feel like emptying it.

Is something wrong with me, doctor?

I always move. This doesn't mean I'm prancing in front of my screen constantly, but at least some part of me is constantly in motion. Sometimes I tap my foot, other times I drum the table, or I stroke my chin... Others tell me I look nervous.

I raise my left eyebrow.  I've only recently seen any videos of myself as an adult, and I notice I do it a lot. 

Oh yes, this one. The best thing about glasses is pushing them back up.

Hitting ctrl + s every time I make a minor change in something I am working on.

The order of which websites I visit when I first get onto the internet for the day, and I rarely if ever break that routine.

And I recently realised that I stroke my chin a lot when in front of the computer for some reason.

I was going to type this exactly, and it's something to be proud of, cause it doesn't really come naturally. But automatically saving all the time is like the best super mundane habit to have.

Hah very true, it has probably saved me a few times, though I often find myself after making a major or important change in my work that I hit the shortcut around 5 or so times in a row, you know.. just to be sure.  :P

Apparently I am very expressive with my hands when I talk.

I do this too, except I often stop doing it when I get really involved in something. Then, just as a finish, the program crashes. Then I cry.

I'm like the exact opposite of this.  I always use SHIFT+DELETE when I'm on a PC or empty the trash can every time I put something in it on a Mac.  Maybe I'm just paranoid. :\

This is my first time learning about about Shift+Del (if I had learned it before, I had completely forgotten about it). It'll probably save me time since I almost always empty the recycle bin on my desktop (stuff collects in there more often on my netbook because I don't have it displayed on the desktop).

I use shift + delete to remove items from the list of suggestions for auto-complete in Firefox. Sometimes because I mis-spelled something and the mis-spelling keeps popping up, sometimes because I just don't want what I entered saved.

I had been looking for a way to do this on Opera, and it turns out that Shift+Delete works there as well! I think I'm going to go press Shift+Delete everywhere and see what shortcuts I've been missing.

Somehow, I just don't think hitting the delete key willy-nilly is going to end well for you.

- pick a nose
- browse TIGS
- humming
- tapping my feet to floor or wall
- Ctrl+S

I do that partially because of this, but also because I fear there might be something I need to dig up :D

I'm sure it's been stated, as it's so common, but every time I sit with my legs straight, I can't help but begin bobbing one of my legs. Every time I notice myself doing it I feel like an impatient puppy.  :shrug2:

I barely move my arms when I walk. Like, at all. I see the motion in every walk cycle tutorial, I've heard it said that almost everyone swings their arms from side to side while walking, and that it's natural to do so and it helps balance. But I don't. Not a conscious decision. I just don't move my arms while walking. I didn't even realize I didn't until I took a theater class back in middle school, and the teacher made us mimic the walking habits of others. If I make a specific effort I can fake it, but once I lose concentration it's back to ol' Noyb stiff arms.

i dont see how that stops you from buying a bionic arm this way you would have three arms that would be pretty cool


on topic
scratching myself

 

I always sit cross-legged, even on chairs, at desks, etc, so I never do the leg-bobbing thing.

You have how many noses? Or perhaps you mean someone else's nose will do as well?

Hmm, I guess I made mistake with article? Should it be "the"? I don't really handle these well since I'm not native speaker :shrug2:

I've started walking like my brother O_O
I'd better stop.

On occasion when I'm walking, to stretch my legs, my training in the ministry of silly walks kicks in. I have since hammered it down to a science and I start walking about like I'm destroying Tokyo as Micheal Jackson in Thriller. I had to be told this, otherwise I'd never know that I hate Tokyo on a subconscious level.

Don't worry about it, it was perfectly understandable. It just conjured amusing images in my mind. In hindsight my post does sound like a teacher's sarcastic comment.

_{it should be "my nose"}

I heard once that this is a vestigial trait from walking on four legs.  The arms swing about how they would if they were meant to touch the ground.  Don't know if it's true.

One sorta semi-conscious thing I find myself doing is making scotch tape loops.  If there's a tape dispenser nearby, I'll pull off a short length, curl it into a sticky loop, roll it across things with my fingers, and typically end up folding it up in strange ways.  I guess it's just a way to satisfy a need to be fidgety.

Whenever I drink Asahi I end up peeling the label off the bottle, before I realise I'm doing it. But only with Asahi, no other beers.

Pulling a mustache. Said in humor of the previous "Pick a nose" statement.
I don't know why, but I never realize I'm doing it until I hear a "POP!" sound from my mouth.

Gain a bit of a drawl when conversing with people with accents. :whome: