# Impulses you've resisted (or not) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 1999, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305 "1999-08-28T23:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/81 "2001-08-07T05:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lady Juliet \* > \*\*yes, biting people _is_ strangely tempting…my sister used to bite me all the time \*\* I just learned from the Paddlewise mailing list (sea kayaking) that New York City averages 1,500 human-againt-human bites per year. Any truth to this? (I wouldn’t know. I’m a Canadian. We just rub noses.) If there is, perhaps you might ship your sister there. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/82 "2001-08-07T06:57:07Z")
Sometimes when I’m at work, I have this urge to stick my hand into the fry oil, just to see how hot it really is. (Note:actual temp is 335) So far, I’ve resisted. But a couple months back, one of my crew people wasn’t so lucky…he plunged his hand in for the hell of it, came out with 2nd degree burns. Yeah, that was a fun accident report to write up… ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Daniel\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/83 "2001-08-07T12:59:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\*Sometimes when I’m at work, I have this urge to stick my hand into the fry oil, just to see how hot it really is. (Note:actual temp is 335) \*\* That was an urge I couldn’t resist at my first job. I’ve successfully resisted it since then. I’ve resisted the urge to shave my head like Mr. Clean, mostly because I have big ears and a head shaped like Billy Corgan. I usually can’t resist the urge to catch a look when a girl bends over towards me and the top of her shirt falls open. During a full moon, if on a small rural road and no one else around, I always drive with my lights off. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/84 "2001-08-07T20:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Is your name Evelyn? Maybe you work with dougie\_monty. I must point out that “Evelyn” was a made-up name I used instead of the girl’s real name. In fact it was similar to her middle name, and she regularly used her first name. For the purposes of this thread I resisted the impulse (infinitesmial anyway) to use Evelyn’s real name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dentarthurdent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dentarthurdent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dentarthurdent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/85 "2001-08-07T21:14:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Poysyn \* > \*\*Even so often I get weird urges like > -driving home topless flashing everyone > -masturbating while a semi is beside me and can see in my sunroof > -Following my SO in to the can at a restaurant/club/whatever, pushing him in to a stall and gving him head. > I have other, not-so-exhibitionist ones, but I won’t share them here. > 🙂 \*\* really resisting the urge right now to ask where poysyn lives I regularly resist the urge to slap the hell out of anyone wearing pants 5 sizes too big for them. I did however fail to resist the urge to run around naked at a hostel in shenandoah one time… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/86 "2001-08-09T04:25:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pestie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > > \*\*“If you can’t control something as simple as the food you buy/eat, how can you control anything in your life?” \*\* > > I tried, I really did, but I was unable to resist the urge to call **Rilchiam** a prick and a snob for posting this statement. It’s not so “simple” for all of us. \*\* It wasn’t simple for me to get over my eating disorder. I had to remind myself constantly that everyone has to eat; that some do it sensibly while others don’t, and that if I could learn to eat sensibly, that would inspire me to get back to normal in other areas. Of course, I’m still not normal. People who’ve met me at CalDope gatherings can attest that when I’m in an unfamiliar environment, it’s back to the old potatoes. And there are too many foods, and styles of foods, that I didn’t get familiar with when I was young, so I’ll probably never be an omnivore. But I’m not fasting or binging any more. Sorry, pestie; I didn’t think to disclaim my statement. I wasn’t talking about vanity dieting, but about gaining power over a disorder. And I’m female, so I would be a cunt, not a prick. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/87 "2001-08-09T04:31:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > **I resist the urge to buy junk food. Often, I pick it up in the store, weigh it in my hand, calculate the price per ounce, if it’s not already listed on the handy shelf card, then remind myself how much healthy food I could get for the same price, and how much longer it would last.** Also, **pestie** , did you read that? This is true for everyone; it is cheaper to eat healthy. Well, the really cheapest things you can make yourself are all starch [pasta, for instance], but that’s still more nutritious than the frozen entrees that come already loaded with fat and oil and sugar. Fruit is cheaper than ice cream. In the winter you don’t want ice cream, so you bake your own cookies instead of dropping twice the amount of money on half the volume of Oreos. Again, I’m being practical, not snobbish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305.md?page=4)