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Subtle

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:41:53 -0800

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By: Mizu

Mizu — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:44:29 -0800

Are you trying to kill me?

By: spitbull

spitbull — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:45:43 -0800

Ok, I cracked up. Dammit.

By: Krazor

Krazor — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:47:11 -0800

Ow, my OCD! It hurts. So. Badly. I beg you to stop.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:48:20 -0800

AAUUGGHH!

By: michaelh

michaelh — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:48:25 -0800

That's a brilliant way to eat pizza.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:49:28 -0800

This just got funnier and funnier as I scrolled down. I have spent so much time in waiting rooms or other dull places just staring at some flaw in the tile until I thought I would have to fix it myself with a butter knife.

By: kafziel

kafziel — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:53:50 -0800

FFFuuuuuuuuUUUUUCK. Stop triggering my OCD.

By: mittens

mittens — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:54:17 -0800

What was wrong with the ice cream sandwich?

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:54:21 -0800

Arrrhghghg

By: halfbuckaroo

halfbuckaroo — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:58:37 -0800

All were amusing until I reached the improperly sharpened pencil.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:58:47 -0800

I was starting to twitch but actually I kind of like the bookshelf one.

By: facetious

facetious — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:02:11 -0800

What was wrong with the ice cream sandwich? interesting shibboleth, to me it seemed very wrong not to start with a small bite out of each of two adjacent corners, then lick the ice cream out of the area between, & so on. just taking a chomp out of it shows an astounding insensitivity to method and proportion.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:02:13 -0800

I see someone has taken a screenshot of my parent's computer desktop.

By: bleep

bleep — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:02:14 -0800

I love this so much. Whenever I see a floor or a wall with those little tiles in some seemingly intricate pattern it always amazes me when I can't find any flaws. A lack of imperfection is always surprising to me for some reason.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:05:42 -0800

Beard spray

By: clockbound

clockbound — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:07:29 -0800

TAKE THAT CAPRI SUN!

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:10:05 -0800

Fish face

By: Malor

Malor — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:16:41 -0800

"Left last box unchecked" was brilliant. If you want to be orderly, you have to lie.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:18:41 -0800

When I was a kid we had a set of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias. They also sent us a yearbook every year, listing the significant events of that year. We had about ten yearbooks, all nice and even in our shelf, along with 26 or so perfectly sized encyclopedias. Then one year they sent us the new yearbook and it was... bigger. Like, an inch and a half taller and it stuck out a half inch or so. I think we got three years of those before we stopped getting them altogether. Those books are still there in my mom's shelf, sticking out like a sore thumb. One of these days I think I'll just go set her house on fire to rid the world of this wrongness.

By: Babblesort

Babblesort — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:19:12 -0800

Last box left unchecked makes me squirm.

By: subbes

subbes — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:20:31 -0800

Hnnnnnnnngh.

By: i less than three nsima

i less than three nsima — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:22:06 -0800

Forget waterboarding, this is my clockwork orange and jack bauer all rolled into one nightmarish dreamscape.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:23:51 -0800

What's wrong with the fig bars?

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:24:15 -0800

This is not a tumour

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:25:45 -0800

The D in OCD actually stands for disorder.

By: Scattercat

Scattercat — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:28:00 -0800

That website is like a recording of nightmares.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:28:05 -0800

Is that one with all the icons a stereogram? Or is the "thing wrong" that it's a bunch of error messages and images from games and people like me will stare and stare and get eyestrain thinking it's a stereogram when it's just a big pile of crap? Because if so, that shit's just mean.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:30:05 -0800

Is there a name for, not actual OCD, but for enjoying putting things in order? When I was very young I'd rearrange boxes on shelves so they all faced the right way, put all the different funny-shaped soaps in the right containers, things like that. I stopped doing this when I grew a massive and painful sense of self-awareness, but it was peaceful while it lasted.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:32:50 -0800

hisssssss

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:33:31 -0800

What's wrong with the fig bars? ONE OF THEM IS FACING THE WRONG WAY D:

By: Confess, Fletch

Confess, Fletch — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:35:32 -0800

No, only one is facing the right way, all the rest are wrong.

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:37:29 -0800

Is that one with all the icons a stereogram? It's a sailboat.

By: formless

formless — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:40:33 -0800

Eris hail!

By: johnstein

johnstein — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:46:09 -0800

The D in OCD actually stands for disorder. which is why I always say OCT (tendencies)

By: Elsa

Elsa — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:47:50 -0800

just taking a chomp out of it shows an astounding insensitivity to method and proportion. I can understand that, but I can't get behind them on the Kit Kat. Have you tried attacking a whole Kit Kat from the short end like that? So crunchy! So textural! So much more satisfying to sink your teeth into a whole plank of Kit Kat than to break it into frail insubstantial fingers and nibble-nibble-nibble into them. I'm not saying it's the only way to eat a Kit Kat, just that it's the only way I eat a Kit Kit anymore.

By: Mister Fabulous

Mister Fabulous — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:49:55 -0800

For those who like rules broken: this came imgur gallery came up on one of my favorite subreddits First World Anarchists (mostly SFW subreddit).

By: Mezentian

Mezentian — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:50:06 -0800

No, only one is facing the right way, all the rest are wrong. Heretic! We might need to have a nice, orderly burning.

By: rainy

rainy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:57:41 -0800

A few of those images feel a little bit off although I can't quite put a finger on it..

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:59:03 -0800

Well, what the hell. Everything looked fine to mǝ.

By: sio42

sio42 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:59:07 -0800

I love the bookshelves but they make me feel dizzy.

By: koucha

koucha — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:01:50 -0800

A couple of these made me twitch hard. The bookshelf was actually kind of cool though.

By: madajb

madajb — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:02:47 -0800

Man, if I had CDO, those would really bother me.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:07:01 -0800

I still don't know what's wrong with the fig bars. Why won't anyone tell me?

By: NoraReed

NoraReed — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:10:19 -0800

One of the fig bars is facing sideways. If that was a serious question. If not, I apologize for missing a joke?

By: rainy

rainy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:11:40 -0800

They're just wrong, bad fig bars. You can almost sense it. Bad apples of fig bars.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:12:02 -0800

Smoke the butt

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:16:01 -0800

Oh, I see now. Hes holding the packge of fg bars upside-down.

By: stroke_count

stroke_count — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:16:55 -0800

One time, on a slow and dreary summer day, my friend guffawed with horror and delight because I first drank glass of milk and then I immediately filled up that same glass with water and then drank that. Oh man, I loved getting under his skin...

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:20:03 -0800

When I was younger and far less sensitive to others, I would go to the Howard Johnson's after midnight to order a large plate of something fried and Mountain Dew with unlimited refills. I was accompanied by other BBS nerds, this being the days before the internet, when we all carried clubs to defend ourselves from dinosaurs and roving boy-bands. One of my favorite people in this menagerie of misfits was a man we shall call J__, as that was not his true name nor his chosen name, which was lifted from a Douglas Adams novel. He was a cheerful and easygoing guy, with a really sly and surreal sense of humor. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have done this to him, but... As we'd chat, I'd flip over one of the jelly packets in the little jelly-bin. While he fixed that, I'd I'd turn the butter knife on my place setting so the edge faced outward. While he fixed that, I'd tear off only the very tip of my straw wrapper. While he peeled the rest of the paper from the straw, I'd swap the salt and pepper shaker screw-tops. While he fixed that, I flipped over one of the jelly packets in the little jelly-bin. He did all this without breaking the flow of conversation, and seemed not to even know he was doing it.

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:21:10 -0800

My babysitter, an ancient woman named Mrs. Brown, had her own peculiar OCD which triggered mine. She loathed the sight of a half-empty cereal box, and fixed it by combining the boxes into one regardless of type. Thus you might unsuspectingly go to pour Cheerios and get a cornflake-rice crispy-Cheerio mix. OF HORROR.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:21:47 -0800

It's a sailboat. Not a bicycle?

By: skycrashesdown

skycrashesdown — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:28:34 -0800

Oh god, it's like when a book or graphic novel series gets re-released and you bring home one you hadn't bought previously and the spine doesn't match and it's a different height from the others. INFURIATING.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:29:07 -0800

This Is Just To Say I have opened the fig bars that were in the cupboard turned one sideways and glued the package shut Forgive me it was devious so sweet and so cold

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:34:55 -0800

I HATE when people do that to the orange juice carton. Or the half-and-half. Or whatever. OMG, those damn pencils that won't take a point. What's up with that? The only thing that cures it is a hacksaw. Sorry, stroke count, anyone who would drink water without rinsing the glass out after putting milk in it is just disgusting. ...spine doesn't match and it's a different height from the others. or those weird-ass nearly square paperbacks!

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:37:54 -0800

i'm one of those terrible people that finds an off-kilter tile or a shaggy, broken line absolutely beautiful. Loved this.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:42:00 -0800

also, how else does on make a gin and capri sun?

By: Riki tiki

Riki tiki — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:45:08 -0800

OverlappingElvis: "The D in OCD actually stands for disorder." As smeoene wtih an O/C spcteurm diosredr, I cnosatnlty fnid tihs irionc.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:49:22 -0800

CAN WE GET A FUCKING WHITE LIGHTER WARNING ON THIS POST FOR FUCKS SAKE

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:54:23 -0800

Funny that you posted this while I was massively reorganizing my Trello lists to save space.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:55:21 -0800

AUUUGH, this is totally brilliant but belongs here because the "lead vocals" of the HP scanner lag a couple of milliseconds and it has the same effect on me as those tiles.

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:56:00 -0800

THIS SITE VALIDATES ALL OF MY COMPLAINTS IN LIFE THANK YOU

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:58:40 -0800

This should have some kind of warning on it. Couple of those pictures made my low level OCD twitch. I've also been known too drink milky water like stroke_count.

By: ten pounds of inedita

ten pounds of inedita — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:59:45 -0800

You down with OCD? Yeah, you know me.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:12:49 -0800

Yes, your right.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:15:36 -0800

Someone in my office keeps opening the cheese packages with scissors on the top of the packet instead of using the very clearly in large red letters labeled E-Z-OPEN & RESEAL ziplock thingy along the side. When I figure out who it is no one will ever fucking find the body.

By: qxntpqbbbqxl

qxntpqbbbqxl — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:16:00 -0800

As we'd chat, I'd flip over one of the jelly packets in the little jelly-bin. While he fixed that, I'd I'd turn the butter knife on my place setting so the edge faced outward. While he fixed that, I'd tear off only the very tip of my straw wrapper. While he peeled the rest of the paper from the straw, I'd swap the salt and pepper shaker screw-tops. While he fixed that, I flipped over one of the jelly packets in the little jelly-bin. One of the early artificial intelligence experiments involved a computer program that simulated a Tetris-like stack of square blocks and a robotic arm. The arm was given the goal of stacking the blocks in a particular pattern, at which point it would stop moving --- that is, until the user came along and capriciously smashed the pattern of blocks, at which point the arm would dutifully spring back into action until the pattern was restored. Rinse and repeat.

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:19:39 -0800

"When I was very young I'd rearrange boxes on shelves so they all faced the right way, put all the different funny-shaped soaps in the right containers, things like that." I got a box of 64 Crayolas for a project I did with a group of adults not long ago, and seriously everyone who came to sit at my table and do their coloring page for the project would, upon finishing, start automatically reorganizing the crayons in the box into their own idiosyncratic crayon organizing system. More than one person said to me, upon finishing rearranging the crayons, "Wow, that was really fun, I haven't gotten to play with a box of crayons since I was a kid!" It wasn't the coloring that was fun -- it was sorting the box. Several offered explanations while working on the fiddly bits of their system, about why they preferred the oranges over HERE or how they had never satisfactorily settled the green-yellow and yellow-green positioning. Most, when faced with the NEW Crayola colors, had to hold the new colors next to a couple of old colors in succession and study where "canary" fits with respect to "lemon yellow." Of course when I went home that night and was putting away my supplies, I dumped out the whole box on the dining room table so I could sort it properly. It was existentially soothing.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:22:03 -0800

"Left last box unchecked" was brilliant. If you want to be orderly, you have to lie. posted by Malor at 9:16 PM on September 30 Last box left unchecked makes me squirm. posted by Babblesort at 9:19 PM on September 30 The righteous way to deal with that is to add another box underneath it that says "Make second to last item a lie" and then check 'em both.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:23:00 -0800

I can't even let the cleaning lady into my office to do anything other than empty the trash because OH GOD SHE WILL TOUCH ALL MY STUFF MY PENS MY PRECIOUS PENS STOP TOUCHING MY PENS THERE IS A SYSTEM OH MY GOD HALP &c

By: Xoc

Xoc — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:29:15 -0800

For a long time I've wanted to tile a floor using Penrose Tiling. I figured it would drive the OCD types completely off the deep end as they tried to find the overall pattern.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:33:54 -0800

The only person I have known intimately who obsessed over making everything perfectly organized did this (and they admitted this) because it was a lot easier than working. See also: an organized desk is a sign of no creativity & if it weren't for deadlines I would never get anything done. I have never known a single person who owned one of those closet organizing systems. I have known three people whose job was to sell them. What percentage of computer users know how to find everything on their disk with a couple clicks and typed keystrokes? Those are the ones I have always wanted to emulate but it seems beyond my power.

By: cx

cx — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:10:01 -0800

I love it! If I'm ever going to tile something in my house, I'll make sure to create imperfections like that.

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:16:58 -0800

Entropy is inevitable, you know. It's a law. Entropy eventually wins.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:17:59 -0800

I do that with Capri Suns all the time.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:31:59 -0800

Bike friend

By: exphysicist345

exphysicist345 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:33:31 -0800

That bookshelf is a great visual joke. I want one. Where can I get one?

By: Buckt

Buckt — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:45:06 -0800

It's slightly more inclusive, because some things are right instead of wrong, but this is essentially the exact subject matter of /r/mildlyinteresting on reddit.

By: kathrynm

kathrynm — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:11:05 -0800

Oye. Ouch. My OCD hurts. At a job where I was in an office with 7 other teachers, they knew better than to borrow a book and put it back in the wrong place. It only took one or two times of them putting it back while I was at my desk and me putting it in the right place to get them all to stop. Seriously, who would put the grammar books with the math books? And why mix up the levels? /neurotic

By: outlandishmarxist

outlandishmarxist — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:27:27 -0800

I almost did something really mean: sending this to my ex with OCD. I didn't have the heart though.

By: outlandishmarxist

outlandishmarxist — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:28:50 -0800

@Xoc: You just made my day. I am going to one day open a restaurant and cover the floor with Penrose tiling.

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:48:19 -0800

At my last job I always felt a need to pull out the paper collector tray thing on the printer. It always seemed to to be pushed all the way in when I would walk by (why?? So your documents can fly out and fall on the floor when you print?). I never did find out who was pushing in the tray. I like to think we had duelling obsessions.

By: Pre-Taped Call In Show

Pre-Taped Call In Show — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:07:38 -0800

By: epo

epo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:15:00 -0800

Whar does it mean that I looked for the ocd tag and instead found the odd tag? What does it mean if you went to check if I was right?

By: Purposeful Grimace

Purposeful Grimace — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:15:38 -0800

A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X YZ

By: epo

epo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:19:03 -0800

And that checklist ticks all the right boxes for me.

By: Faintdreams

Faintdreams — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:20:22 -0800

This site is a nice balm to sooth the brain after viewing those images: Things Organised Neatly - http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/. Showcases precisely (and I do mean precisely) what the URL describes. I liked this. Coupla instances really made my mind's eye do a wft? thought. The mismatched floor tiles especially.

By: brokkr

brokkr — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:37:41 -0800

cmyk: "Is there a name for, not actual OCD, but for enjoying putting things in order?"

Librarianism.

By: Mr. Bad Example

Mr. Bad Example — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:31:06 -0800

Why...why would you do that? This is like showing a photo gallery of crosses to a vampire.

By: Lipstick Thespian

Lipstick Thespian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:17:00 -0800

Metafilter: All were amusing until I reached the improperly sharpened pencil.

By: kengraham

kengraham — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:23:13 -0800

The gallery itself makes me uncomfortable. 'physical objects not properly aligned' and 'food item consumed in a convention-subverting manner' are both very upsetting but NOT IN THE SAME WAY OBVIOUSLY COME ON!!! and I am sort of longing to open an imgur account and make a new post separated as such. I had a similar problem: the author of the gallery seems to think that a brilliant, mind-destroying variation on the Epimenides paradox can be lumped together with the violation of some obscure norm about chocolate consumption, displaying a lack of discernment showing that this person should not be trusted with such dangerous information as the hitherto-secret knowledge that Capri Sun isn't some kind of fluorescent orange.

By: lucidium

lucidium — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:50:15 -0800

Those cracked me up, especially the pizza. I used to joke about OCD because I like stuff neat too, but these days it just sounds like someone healthy eating ice cream and going "Oh man, this is really gonna hurt me in the diabetes!"

By: ob1quixote

ob1quixote — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:07:59 -0800

cmyk: Is there a name for, not actual OCD, but for enjoying putting things in order?

Didn't this used to be called anal retentive?

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:30:08 -0800

I did not expect this to be so... jarring. I feel like somebody just ran a fork down my spine.

By: Hollywood Upstairs Medical College

Hollywood Upstairs Medical College — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:07:50 -0800

I don't understand you organizational types. Chaos is life.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:48:00 -0800

gingerest: "Is that one with all the icons a stereogram?" It might be. I tried staring at it, and it slowly began to resolve, but just before I could make out what it was my brain refused to accept it and it snapped out of focus again. I honestly tried, several times, my main impression is that it resembled two Atari logos joined end-to-end... but then it goes blank again just before I can really see it. If it's a stereogram, it wasn't meant to be seen by human eyes I guess. It's either the face of Cthulhu or a visual fnord. I can't decide which would be worse.

By: Free word order!

Free word order! — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:32:11 -0800

I wonder what kind of furious moral handbrake turn brain would make, if primed with enough of this kind of material and then displayed a picture with some typical difference-acceptance image, like a school class with one Down syndrome kid or one kid with a different skin color. 'Oh that one! How jarring! No, I mean... '

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:44:23 -0800

I get a lot of shit for being "messy" or "disorganized". I've also noticed that most of the people who give me such shit, who straighten everything and make list after list and are fixated on 'organization' almost invariably never get anything done.

By: spbmp

spbmp — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:45:08 -0800

wow, I couldn't stop laughing (and couldn't figure out why.) This was especially fun after this linked video in this posting a few days ago.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:47:47 -0800

I once had a memory test where they laid out ten cards with random images on them, e. g. an apple, a car , a monkey, a gas station, &c. Then I was blindered and they pulled one from the collection and shuffled them around and I was supposed to tell them which one was missing. Repeat 12 or 14 times. That test was exhausting. I wonder if people with strong preference for place for everything and everything in place might almost enjoy taking a test like that. Does anybody know what the name for that test is?

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:33:50 -0800

idk, it sounds like pretty standard Stanford-Binet stuff to me.

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:33:53 -0800

Not the least bit.

By: Hushpuppy

Hushpuppy — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:42:18 -0800

When my mother eats an ear of corn, she just takes bites out of it randomly. Just here, there, where ever. It's horrible to witness. I don't like to jump on board the "blame the mother for everything" bandwagon, but I think about those ears of corn every time I organize my closet. Which is everyday.

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:44:14 -0800

Oh, and stop trying to see the "stereogram." Stereograms need horizontal repeating patterns that this doesn't really have. It's just a desktop that makes it harder to see your icons.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:57:49 -0800

Whenever I see a floor or a wall with those little tiles in some seemingly intricate pattern it always amazes me when I can't find any flaws. A lack of imperfection is always surprising to me for some reason Those little tiles are usually made up of 12X12 or 18x18 (sometimes smaller for accent and narrow patterns) sheets of the small tiles. The factory would need to screw up for a single small tile to be off and then the installer not notice. I've got one of these aggravating once you see it tile disconutities in the walk in shower I tiled. Because the floor slopes unevenly to a drain and because a cheap 12X12 tile is $0.79 and a cheap 3x3 tile is $1 I bought 12x12 tiles and cut them down to 3x3s thereby reducing my costs by 90+%. However my 3x3 tiles come in different styles because of the original 12x12 tile finished edges. IE: there are tiles with 2 finished edges, 1 finished edge, and 0 finished edges. This was a problem I identified before I started cutting the tiles so I was very careful to store the cut tiles so they conformed to their original tile so I could lay each 16 tile group as a single mega-tile group. Except for along one wall where I needed to slide the tiles under the overhanging wall tiles and my remaining space was only 9" wide. I accidently stuck the finished edge tiles under the wall instead of using the tiles from one space in (discarding the set of tiles from the orignial finished edge) and I didn't notice till it came to lay the tiles three rows from the wall. What should have been a finished edge was tiles from the center of the 12x12. All the under wall tiles were all ready set up so I just left them but it makes me twitchy everytime I'm in that room.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:04:42 -0800

only anti-social miscreants eat Kit-Kats that way. srsly.. what if your friend wants a bite? IT IS DESIGNED TO BE SHARED. can you as easily rip apart a milky way or 3 Musketeers? no. I used to have a Capri-Sun almost daily during elementary school. and easily half the time I'd try to jab that straw into the package, it wouldn't go in. or the little sharp tip of the straw would bend. so the scissors are entirely justified. that desktop is just an evil prank. deliciously evil.

By: jinkoh

jinkoh — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:02:02 -0800

Maybe the responses to this deluge have pointed out the average MeFiers partial INSANITY.... that I also have

By: Elsa

Elsa — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:30:01 -0800

IT IS DESIGNED TO BE SHARED. can you as easily rip apart a milky way or 3 Musketeers? no.every Milky Way or 3 Musketeers that I get for Halloween because I am not interested in those candy bars, but GET YOUR OWN KIT KAT I AM BITING ON THIS ONE.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:31:13 -0800

DANG IT! That should read "I can share like nobody's business. You can have all of every Milky Way or 3 Musketeers that I get for Halloween..."

By: cirrostratus

cirrostratus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:34:13 -0800

also, how else does on make a gin and capri sun? Like this.

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:14:44 -0800

Like this. I'm going to set up a Kickstarter to make Capri Sun pouch-funnels.

By: stagewhisper

stagewhisper — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:11:56 -0800

What's it called when anything too orderly makes you twitchy? Because my surroundings usually look a lot like these photos after I adjust the items around me (okay, except for the pizza, perhaps) so that my environment feels less, I dunno, *repressive*.

By: jcreigh

jcreigh — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:42:38 -0800

Metafilter: an astounding insensitivity to method and proportion.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:03:55 -0800

My favorite high-school math teacher always used to point out that what humans are good at is pattern recognition.

By: 5_13_23_42_69_666

5_13_23_42_69_666 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:23:52 -0800

What was wrong with the ice cream sandwich? bitten in the middle, and left to melt on the counter

By: vytae

vytae — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:27:12 -0800

I like to think we had duelling obsessions. After a solid 2 weeks of reorganizing our kitchen utensil drawer on a daily basis, such that the pastry cutter was in the drawer UNDER the pizza wheel (so the tines wouldn't get jammed and bent while the drawer was being pulled out), I started to wonder if I was going crazy. I was fixing it all the time and we weren't making biscuits or pie or even pizza for that matter, but every time I opened the drawer, the damn pastry cutter was back on top again. Finally, suspecting really specific gaslighting, I asked my husband about it. It turns out he had been pulling the pastry cutter out and putting it on top every time he opened the drawer, because he knew I was sensitive about it getting bent and he thought it would get crushed if left under the pizza wheel.

By: bryon

bryon — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:06:04 -0800

bukvich: What percentage of computer users know how to find everything on their disk with a couple clicks and typed keystrokes? Those are the ones I have always wanted to emulate but it seems beyond my power. ... couple OF clicks ...

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:55:56 -0800

I suppose I'm not the only one who has sat in a stall and found strange faces in the patterns in the vinyl sheet flooring in front of me. Sometimes, they whisper things to me. Oh, the secrets they tell! Ah, edit has failed me. I have said too much!

By: bukvich

bukvich — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:18:04 -0800

bryon you laugh but those goofy people hovering over their smart phones are mostly looking for something they filed badly.

By: wenestvedt

wenestvedt — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:32:48 -0800

My Best Friend and Best Man still laughs at the memory of my wife sorting out my bookshelf by color shortly after we got married. By color, I said. I was kind of short of breath for a while after that. Last month she reorganized my basement workbench, and this weekend she got to my dresser top again. I do love her all the same.

By: nzero

nzero — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:12:58 -0800

I did not expect this to be so... jarring. I feel like somebody just ran a fork down my spine. A...fork? Down your spine? Is that a thing??

By: b33j

b33j — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:32:46 -0800

A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X YZ posted by Purposeful Grimace at 3:15 PM on October 1 [4 favorites +] [!] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z You'd be surprised how many times I wanted to flag that comment. But I feel better now. Uh oh... I was just tempted to break something else in the alphabet above, so people who thought it was all fine, would go "Naaarrrgggh." You are a bad influence, Purposeful Grimace. Bad. There's a 5 minute edit window I'm going to have to restrain myself for.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:05:12 -0800

I'll just leave this here.

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:54:19 -0800

I really like the bookshelves, although they make me twitchy.