Ketchup on hot dogs.
Same here. As a kid, I used to raise insects, especially praying mantises. According to my mom, when I was little I used to come home with all sorts of live bugs and worms in my pockets.
Changing diapers on my infant / toddler son. Seems that some people, stereotypically fathers, can’t stand diaper duty. Didn’t bother me at all. He seemed so utterly clean and pure, that even his messes weren’t bad (compared to those of an adult).
Me three!
Please don’t get mad. I’m not speaking for any woman but myself. But when men honk at me or catcall when I’m out for a jog or walking my dog, it doesn’t bother me. I even find it a bit flattering, because I put effort into my appearance and it feels like someone telling me “you look nice today.” They always just keep driving, so I’ve never felt in danger or like they’re going to disrespect me. I mean, there have been times that I’ve felt in danger and disrespected around men … but never a time that stemmed from a catcall or car horn honk.
This educational YouTube video on the human disgust response is informative. The part relevant to your comment starts at 4:23.
Some Dopers make it a point that they have so-and-so on Ignore, and further gripe that they don’t want to see the quoted Ignored on replies. I have a wheel on my mouse, and if I see somebody’s posts I don’t like, I just spin the wheel. Why add more stress to your life letting the offending Doper live rent-free in your head?
Man, there’s some weird shit in this thread that people are ok with, but THIS makes me crazy. Eye contact is so, what, intimate? Seriously, if we’re going to be saying more than a sentence or two I’ll look at your eyes from time to time just as I will put aside my aversion to physical contact to shake your hand (with your consent, of course). But I’m not gonna show you my pupils for more than a second or so each minute, any more than I’d shake your hand for more than a pump or two. Bleah. Human contact. Ergh, now I’ve gone and gotten the heebie jeebies.
This bothers a lot of people, though I wouldn’t say everybody else, especially here. I refer to those who get all huffy when someone says “No problem”, instead of “You’re welcome”.
I’ll probably think of other things later on.
I think you misunderstand. Inadvertent eye contact is normal social behavior. I don’t mean prolonged eye contact or anything more than what happens as a result of everyday, normal social interactions. It’s so quick and pervasive that it isn’t noticeable until an effort is made to consciously avoid it.
Since the vast majority of people never experience this unmistakable conscious avoidance of normal social eye contact, it could easily just go unnoticed to begin with.
As someone who spent the first 20 years of his life as an able-bodied member of society and the last 19 years of his life as a wheelchair-using member of the same society, the unmistakable effort to avoid eye contact with me as a wheelchair user can’t be unseen even if it’s wanted to be. I never happen to briefly meet the gaze of passing people (well, with the exception of certain specific weird middle age men with oddly intense stares). But i do regularly meet the sudden rapid aversion of eyeballs as far away from me as possible which is a peculiar and extremely noticeable thing to see. Especially on an everyday basis.
Spoilers. If it’s a clever ending, I’ll still enjoy seeing how they got there. If it’s a stupid ending, you’ve just saved me some time.