The bad habits thread.

[otaku]

Umm... TMI?

I'll give you to much info....ok no i won't

[Tan]

I have a bad habit......

I strip music CDs and any other usable media case like them for parts to replace broken game cases. I literally hunt around the apartment scrounging for anything with a usable jewel case. You wouldn't believe how many brand new music CDs or PC software titles that have cracked or scratched cases or cases with nasty stickers on them that are lying around.

[NES_Rules]

I have a bad habit......

I strip music CDs and any other usable media case like them for parts to replace broken game cases. I literally hunt around the apartment scrounging for anything with a usable jewel case. You wouldn't believe how many brand new music CDs or PC software titles that have cracked or scratched cases or cases with nasty stickers on them that are lying around.

I do that too. Every CD I own that is not a game CD is loose in a binder. I generally just throw away broken/cracked cases instead of re-using them though.

[OatBob]

I'm a constant nail biter.

As far as other habits go, I talk to myself when I'm alone (or to my dog) and am a habitual collector.

Fortunately, I do a fair job of controlling myself and have kept myself from habitual smoking or gum chewing because of my addictive personality.  Additionally, I keep my collections down to fewer things, instead of lots of things... Video Games being the prime one.  One collecting sector I've refrained from is trading cards and Star Wars.  I've seen wealthy people break the bank on those... let alone someone like myself.  Even in video games I get divided between classic and modern games.  Either way... if the games are good, you can't go wrong with either!

[logical123]

I'm a constant nail biter.

As far as other habits go, I talk to myself when I'm alone (or to my dog) and am a habitual collector.

Fortunately, I do a fair job of controlling myself and have kept myself from habitual smoking or gum chewing because of my addictive personality.  Additionally, I keep my collections down to fewer things, instead of lots of things... Video Games being the prime one.  One collecting sector I've refrained from is trading cards and Star Wars.  I've seen wealthy people break the bank on those... let alone someone like myself.  Even in video games I get divided between classic and modern games.  Either way... if the games are good, you can't go wrong with either!

Heh. I talk to myself too...

[Tan]

I have a bad habit......

I strip music CDs and any other usable media case like them for parts to replace broken game cases. I literally hunt around the apartment scrounging for anything with a usable jewel case. You wouldn't believe how many brand new music CDs or PC software titles that have cracked or scratched cases or cases with nasty stickers on them that are lying around.

I do that too. Every CD I own that is not a game CD is loose in a binder. I generally just throw away broken/cracked cases instead of re-using them though.

I just picked up 3 packs of new jewel cases with 24 in each, I've used 40-45 of 72 already. It gets harder to buy them sometimes, as there are so many "slim" cases sold and so few full sized ones available anymore.

[Wolfman Walt]

Heh. I talk to myself too...

It's only a problem when you answer yourself.

[Kimoosabi]

Nail biting is my only bad habit really. I don't even realize that I am doing it until after the fact usually.

[logical123]

Heh. I talk to myself too...

It's only a problem when you answer yourself.

I do. I have serious mental issues, me thinks...

[Sirgin]

I do. I have serious mental issues, me thinks...

[Deafens Proner]

I talk to myself too

[Zagnorch]

Not sure this is a bona fide "bad habit," but I prefer to stand when watching TV or playing video games.

This habit can make for rather awkward situations when I'm a house guest.

"Ummm... are you sure you don't wanna sit down to watch the show? there's plenty of places to sit, you know."

"Thanks anyway, I'm cool."

I think it stems from spending most of my adult life in jobs involving standing and walking around all day, and not feeling fatigued at all at the end of my shift. That, and the 15 to 20 miles of hiking I do a week.

[SirPsycho]

I have a bad habit involving necromancy.

[Zagnorch]

I have a bad habit involving necromancy.

Ummm... that doesn't involve necrophilia, does it???

On second thought, don't answer that, 'cuz I really don't wanna know

[Deafens Proner]

Necromancy is a claimed form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge. The term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft.

The word "necromancy" derives from the Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós), "dead body", and μαντεία (manteía), "prophecy or divination". The compound form νεκρομαντεία is itself post-classical, first used by Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century CE. The classical Greek term is ἡ νέκυια (nekyia), νεκυιομαντεία in Hellenistic Greek, rendered as necyomantia in Latin, and as necyomancy in 17th century English.

In Renaissance magic, necromancy – or, as it was frequently called during that period, nigromancy (adapted from the Latin nigr-, niger, "black") – was classified foremost among seven "forbidden arts".