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19 Dec 2009, 10:27 am

Doing it with a Tiger is a seriously mental thing to do, not to mention gross in the extreme! :roll:

even standing next to an un-caged Tiger that has grown up with regular human contact is tantamount to madness (as Siegfried and Roy discovered)
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Once i had close friend and i read in a "self help" book (if "self help" means make things WORSE i hit the jackpot!!) that her behavior was wrong and that i should ditch her. :)

I did what the book said and lost maybe by best ever friend - i couldn't have met anyone more honest, loyal, forgiving and down to earth and she was/ is a better person as i will ever meet or could hope to be!! :!:

2 years later i realized i was wrong and have tried to get back in touch with her but she doesn't even really want to be mates online, let alone be friends in real life :cry:

She was my true life long partner whom i had waited what seemed like an eternity to find and because of these blasted gurus and therapists i lost touch with her for no reason, even though she did me more good in 5 months that a life time of pills, books and "helpful advice could ever do!! :heart:



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19 Dec 2009, 10:40 am

This is weird, but.....


Two or three years ago, I was getting on the bus to go home when some guy came up to me & said "The boys are in the forest playing with the wood nymphs" 8O or something very similar to that &, at first, I was actually believing it could be true. My mind hadn't automatically ruled it out 8O. Then he said "You shouldn't believe everything someone tells you." It's obvious to me now, that the guy had schizophrenia or something, but at the time, for some odd reason, I was actually thinking that there was a possibility that there was a forest near me I didn't know about & boys were there playing with wood nymphs :lol: :roll:


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19 Dec 2009, 11:03 am

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Recently I was reading a headline on a news website that read: PORN STAR SAYS SEX WITH TIGER WAS SPIRITUAL,AMAZING. I sat there for a while, thinking what kind of nut job would risk serious injury by having sex with a tiger? Then after a while it dawned on me.


ahhaaa thanks for a good laugh! :D :lmao:



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19 Dec 2009, 5:38 pm

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When I was a child, my parents mentioned to me that "teens aren't allowed to drink." I was horrified, and asked what happened when they got thirsty..
OMG, I said the same thing when i was told that! :lol:


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19 Dec 2009, 5:43 pm

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I'm curious, does it count as taking things literally if you immediately visualize say jumping into a lake? I like idioms so I don't take them literally but I always visualize them. When I was younger my younger brother used to tell me stuff on a regular basis that I believed and he thought was funny that I believed. He used to do it for that very purpose.
Same here, I don't take then literally much anymore, but i still visualize them literally. When I was reading s book on genetics and the childless author wrote that his selfish genes could go jump in a lake I had a picture in my mind of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts jumping into a lake! :lol:


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19 Dec 2009, 6:06 pm

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Maggiedoll wrote:
When I was a child, my parents mentioned to me that "teens aren't allowed to drink." I was horrified, and asked what happened when they got thirsty..
OMG, I said the same thing when i was told that! :lol:



I remember seeing signs on the road saying "Don't drink and drive" and I thought that was the stupidest thing ever. I thought drinks as in drinking water or pop or juice, etc. I wondered why can't you drink and then drive.


I also remember seeing these sings in restaurants showing a picture of a baby in the mother's tummy and the glass in mother's hand and it have a red circle around it and a line through it. I thought "why can't you hold a class with a baby inside?"


In 7th grade, a girl told me she liked drinking and getting stoned. I thought she drank liquids and liked rocks. She also said she partied and I thought she meant she like going to parties. Mom told me she meant she drinks alcohol, likes doing drugs that are illegal and no prescribed to her and she goes to parties that have drugs and alcohol.


As a child every time people asked me what's up, I always looked up. I did that up till the age of 14 and then it got explained to me what it meant. Then I started noticing that phrase in movies and TV shows.

In 4th grade I first learned about drugs and how bad they are, I came home that day and told my parents I couldn't take my pills anymore because drugs are bad.



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19 Dec 2009, 7:27 pm

There was a time when I thought oral sex meant talking dirty. I was reading a trashy magazine (I was in 9th grade) and it related that this celebrity had had oral sex with a woman. So I thought that meant they stood there and said "dirty" words to each other.


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19 Dec 2009, 7:41 pm

My Mom: "You can be anything you want when you grow up."
Me (five-years-old): "I want to be a purple ballerina octopus!! !"
My Mom: "I MEANT IN YOUR OWN SPECIES!"

My aunt and her friend and I are in the car going someplace (when I'm really little) and my aunt's friend asked, "What religion is Shannon?" to which my aunt replied, "Oh, she's nothing," and then I perked up from the backseat and said, "I'm an American, aren't I?!"

I know there's a lot from when I was older and from around this time in my life, but I don't remember them just because I knew not to take it literally and just stared for a moment and said, "...what?"


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20 Dec 2009, 5:10 am

This just happened recent on msn with a new friend.


Him: Do you feel that some music is "too heavy" for you?
Me: No. why
Him: That irks me when some people say that some music like death metal is too heavy for them
Me: Oh, I don't understand it. How can it be heavy? It's a song, words
Him: That's being literal
Me: How so?

Then I go asking mu husband what it is as my buddy is typing and he explains it to me while my husband said it means they can't take it, it's too much and I said "That be base."
Then my buddy rephrased the question and asked me if I feel that some music is too loud for me.

(I hope my buddy here doesn't mind me posting about our chat)



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20 Dec 2009, 5:29 am

When I was in kindergarten, the teacher said we would be taking a field trip (my very first field trip) to the kids space museum. And I thought that made absolutely no sense and I asked how we could be going to a museum if she said we would be going on a field trip. I don't remember what her response was but I do remember asking afterwards if the museum was in a field. And I think she said something about how the museum HAD a field but was not IN a field.
Then I think I asked why she said we would be going on a field trip to a museum and whether we'd be going to a field or to a museum. And she was all "wtff?" and one of my guy classmates called me stupid and the teacher gave him a time out. :)


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20 Dec 2009, 5:31 am

At some traffic intersections there are signs like this:

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Whenever I would be waiting to turn left if the traffic light color would change I would slam on my brakes.

I was so scared that I was going to go through when the traffic arrow was yellow.

I had had my driver's license for more than five years when I learned that it is okay to go through if the arrow displayed is yellow.



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20 Dec 2009, 5:33 am

I used to wonder why they were called field trips if you don't go out in the field. Instead we went to places.



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20 Dec 2009, 5:43 am

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I used to wonder why they were called field trips if you don't go out in the field. Instead we went to places.


uhhhh lol?

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20 Dec 2009, 9:46 am

In primary school for a "time out" we had to fill in a form concerning our behaviour.

One of the boxes had the words, "Right now I am feeling..." as a prompt for the student. One time I wrote, "Hot, because I just got back from recess." The teacher though I was being a smart alec and sent me up to the next level of punishment, the dreaded "buddy class". That didn't make any sense either, as they did not treat me like buddies should.

When on the phone with my friend asking what he was doing that particular night, he said to me, "We don't have to do something every night." I replied, "We don't do something every night." To that he replied, "I wasn't being literal, you Aspie!" I didn't take offense to it because it's a point of conversation for us and we all find it funny.


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20 Dec 2009, 11:03 am

I rememver coming across the phrase "glued to the TV" and thinking of people actually stuck to the TV with PVA glue!


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20 Dec 2009, 11:35 am

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