La la la, going to be a late night...

[gfish]

Random question: What silly, pretentious little mannerisms have you consciously adopted and had stick?

I like to decisively drop/throw down objects when I'm done using them. Never in a context to do damage to them or anything else, though. I picked it up from the way Dan Aykroyd throws down his empty pistols at the beginning of Grosse Point Blank. There is just something about the economy of movement (and therefore purpose) that I love, instantly switching from one perfectly planned task to the next. That is how my idealized self-image always acts.

Comments

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I do that with empty stock bottles at work. I line them up to check the prescription that used the pills they contained, and then throw them in to the trash bin with unnecessary percussion. I like to chop vegetables with extra violence too. Cucumber you could cut with a butter knife? This calls for my giant cleaver! CHOP!

Standing at the exact spot on the SkyTrain platform where the doors will open, and then looking smug when I don't have to walk to the doors. (Somewhat thwarted by how there are now two different kinds of skooch cars, and I forget which one you line up with the flagpole for and which one you stand just to the left of the 3rd ad, etc., so that I look smug + foolish more often than just smug these days.) (These days = since 2001, when those newfangled cars arrived. Apparently I'm a slow learner.) Also walking to the set of skytrain doors that will open closest to the exit of the station I'm getting off at.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Gesturing to automatic doors as if I open them with the Force. It doubles as a "predict the sensor" game, but mostly it's silly.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

When my baby daughter and I approach an automatic door, she gestures sweepingly from her stroller.

[tommusic.livejournal.com]

Yes! I do this too!

Actually, now I've gotten to know the doors to the Music building on campus so well that I walk at full stride straight at them. They open just in time to let someone exactly my size though. I feel like such a cool dude.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I have never mentioned this to anyone, not even YOU, but I actually do this silly little flourish now and then when I'm typing. Usually it's when I'm typing something long and involved for work, like a transcription of a recorded statement, and I've just completed something very long and done it excellently well and fast. I do this sort of lifting up of my hands off the keyboard just a little... I can't even reproduce it on purpose, now that I'm thinking about it, because it just kind of comes to me to do it sometimes but it only comes when I'm really on a roll. But I'm always aware of it when I'm doing it.

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

"They turned my home into a Quickie-Mart."

...I fucking love that movie. It's more poignant moments are the basis for my own Under Pressure.

And to give you an answer, I laugh nervously/firmly in response to peoples' comments in normal conversation. I acknowledge them and what they are saying but even when I do have something to add or say to that, I still laugh.

That and I copy little nuances and behaviors from people close to me, when I'm in their presence. Friends have said lately that my roommate and I have become essentially the same person. XD

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

I often part from people by saying 'tot ziens', an expression I picked up from an old lover. We haven't communicated since 1996, but I still say it. I guess I still love her.

[lolmike.livejournal.com]

I'm all silly, pretentious, adopted mannerisms.

[cairisrin.livejournal.com]

I've picked up lots over the years and lost lots with every major move I do, but when I was young I picked up saying 'mon ami' in my casual speech from Gambit. I liked comic books a lot. This directly translated to 'my friend' after my small obsession with the show Invisible Man, and since has changed back to French, but it doesn't happen too often anymore. Then again, my verbal speech is extremely different than my written speech, eh.

Other than that, I chew on penlids when I'm typing (or more lately, honey sticks) and I know I picked that up from a roommate, but I can't remember which one. Not sure, but because of it, everyone keeps asking me if I used to be a smoker. o.O

oh, god, can no longer function because i'm watching for my mannerisms!!!

[tikimonkey.livejournal.com]

i have never thought about this before... now i'm going to have to report back to you!

but this post and the comments made me chuckle fondly :)