Ask Lemmy

I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.

At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. "There is no leak here, you're just imagining things" was the response after I showed the room to my boss. "There is and we shall see in a few days." After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.

I've been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn't so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.

That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress.. most only go through the tourist area.

As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.

YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more ("The thing is, like, if you're trying to do this, or this, do X first" -- predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.

Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )

I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses..., in full 3D and a victorian setting.

In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).

I can lick my elbow.

I have actually been held at gunpoint many times in a dictatorship, by the leftists dictator forces.

I have actually gone through famine for years caused by leftists, and survived to tell the tale.

I also have survived a leftist dictatorship and escaped successfully from one

Weird flex but okay

I'm trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:

My parents and my husband's parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.

My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian's first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.

I have never not gotten the job.