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Do you talk to things/people that aren't real or are inanimate? |
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No, that's weird |
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Maybem maybe not. |
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Kenosaki Serf
Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 6
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: They aren't real... |
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Som I talk to stuffed animals and my depictions of characters from books when I'm bored/lonely. Does anyone else? It's extremely fun to make up conversations and personalities for the stuffed animals, and the chracters are fun to act out. My favorite is my Stuffed Koalla bear Roger. He's extremely interesting once you get to know him, but he cheats at cardgames. (namely poker) |
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Aja Pajamazon
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 2086 Location: Thataway
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Darn cheating koalas. They're too clever by half.
...I talk to my birds. Does that count? _________________ "The one concession a sane man will never yield the universe is that of considering it seriously."
~ James Branch Cabell |
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Saint Cy Spark
Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 98
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I talk to my cats. And maybe a comment or two to my old teddy bear whenever I see him. |
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Liliy Spark
Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 96
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think pets count...what pet owner DOESN'T talk to their pet? XD
I like to talk to my computer at home and the copy machine at work. Sometimes you have to coax copy machines into doing what you want. >.> They're very sensitive. _________________ Wiglaf & Mordred |
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brady kj Royalty
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 544 Location: Big Spoons
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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I used to talk to my car and computer and such with phrases like "You damn machine! Why don't you start?!" For the past year or so, I've been much more polite to them. |
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Jazhara7 Looning over the World!
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Beyond the Pattern of Reality...or Germany
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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You mean there's people who don't do that?!
Yup. All the time. ^_^
The most common is probably "Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt!" - "And if you're not willing, I shall use force." (that's the literal translation. The adaptation would be "And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ." It's one of the more well known lines from the German poem "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Erlkönig]Der Erlkönig[/url]" ["The Erlking"], though the entire poem is rather well known, I believe. ), when something doesn't want to go the way I want. I talk to my Aloe, Chuck, too.
- _________________ Destiny shall draw the Lightning
Down from Heaven; roll its Thunder
Far across the Sea, to where I
Wait upon the Shore of Wonder
On the day the Sky is opened,
And the tree is split asunder.
- Lady Cygna's grave, LOOM |
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purple_phoenix Courtier
Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 76 Location: Shhhh....I am a ninja!
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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I blame all this on Aja....i've started talking to my desktop for which she drew for me! I used to use some not too nice words to talk to my computer but now I will say "night guys" when I shut down my computer....to the people on my desk top!
_________________ Don't worry, I am a ninja!
Hold still! All I want to do is poke you with a spoon! XD
If Paul_V is the Ice, I am the Fire. So there. :p |
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brady kj Royalty
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 544 Location: Big Spoons
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Jazhara7 wrote: |
Yup. All the time. ^_^
The most common is probably "Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt!") |
I mostly stick to English, except when I'm speaking to lab rodents, then it's mostly Norwegian. |
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Kenosaki Serf
Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 6
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Our printer, which I refer to as the evil machine from the deep abys of doom, is verry stuborn, and likes to destroy my schoolwork. So whenever It stops working properly, I start to threaten it with "Holy" ink cartriges, and the like. Actually I threaten all the electronic devices around my house when they stop working. Strangely enough, it actually works. |
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Aja Pajamazon
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 2086 Location: Thataway
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Now that you mention it, I seem to recall threatening my computer with a squirt gun back in 2000, when the old dial-up modem was being particularly laggy. And it did work. XD
I'm nicer to it now, though. I always give it a pat when I turn it off for the night. _________________ "The one concession a sane man will never yield the universe is that of considering it seriously."
~ James Branch Cabell |
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