I was a nun once.
Used to wear clothes made of fuzzy felt.

That was a pretty bizarre habit.
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 18:02, Reply)

During my time as a monk.
Not once did I wash my clothes.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 18:02, Reply)

Text
I always text my mates before a shag 'Cover me, I'm going in'

Good job i have unlimited texts!

Even sadder is that i have them set up as a group on my phone!
(Suck it and Sea, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:50, Reply)

Another one
If I'm eating a handful of multi-coloured sweets, I have to eat them in colour order, lightest to darkest. "Lightest to darkest" is strictly:

Yellow
Green
Orange
Blue
Red
Purple
Black

If the sweets are in the packet or tube though, it doesn't matter.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:49, 1 reply)

my habit
is masturbation to internet prons
(shamen Geekius Maximus, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:42, Reply)

When going up a staircase
I always take two steps at a time, so if I know there is an odd number of steps in the staircase (including the step onto the floor at the top), I take the single step at the beginning so that I arrive neatly at my destination.

Having read other people's contributions to this QOTW though, that's perfectly normal behaviour. YOU FUCKING WEIRDOS.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Tapping stuff
If I tap something with my right hand, I then have to tap it with my left hand to "balance it out". Not only that, I also have to tap it with exactly the same force. If I tap it too hard I then have to tap it a second time with the first hand. This can (and occasionally does) go on for some time.

/OCD
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:36, 2 replies)

Whenever I pick up a spoon from a table, I turn it on it's side and tap it a couple of times.
Caused by years of my elder siblings putting salt in the spoons once the table was set. Resulting in salty custard or rice or whatever. I'm not the only one to have picked up this habit, and if we are all in restaurant together, it sounds very strange.

I've tried to break the cycle, but without success.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:24, Reply)

You know how you'll get the same bit of tune going around and around in your head?
Sometimes I get that but with words instead of a tune. Just the other day I had the name "Heinz-Harald Frentzen" going around my head. I must've muttered it to myself about 40 times. It was like the brain equivalent of a stubborn nut stuck in your teeth.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:20, 4 replies)

When I'm a passenger ...
or on the bus or the train I'll take any small spec on the window or windscreen and line it up on people's heads etc and use it like the crosshairs in a gunsight and pretend I'm mowing people down. I've done it for as long as I can remember and I'm in my northern 40s now.
( Ramsay Tupper, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:18, 8 replies)

Spooner-isms
For some reason, especialy when wtaching TV I'm constantly making spoonerisms inside my head, constantly, normally when people say full names as its 2 words that stand out in the sentance. Sometimes drives my wife insane. My speciality are Match of The Day commentators.

My personal favirotes are Lary Giniker, Brother Simonton and Mo Guybray.

Help me
( retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:15, 6 replies)

If I have a glass of water out of the tap
I have to fill it and empty it twice before I drink out of it. I have no fucking idea why.
( PMGT -Bacon., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:14, 6 replies)

Sandwiches
It's taken my gf 3 years to get the confidence to make me a sandwich in case she did it wrong. I guess it's babyish but I literally can't eat a sandwich if it has various different 'issues' about it which I won't list here. I don't want to sound like an arsehole but it makes me really anxious.
Sorry Love x
( SauronWibble I'll hold it, you lick it..., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:10, 6 replies)

Supermarket Tetris
When going around the supermarket I have to make sure that everything stacks corectly into the trolley - you know, so there are no gaps, large items are not on top of small items, heavy items on top of light items, cleaning products not next to fresh food etc. Then when placing the items on the conveyor belt, they also have to be in the right order. When it comes to packing the bags they have to be done in a tetris like way so as not to leave any gaps. This annoys my boyfriend so much he sings the tetris music constantly at me and i think secretly wants to kill me dead right there.
(pavemental, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:02, 7 replies)

Samwise Gamgee
Oh, wait
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:57, 2 replies)

Adding up car numberplates
I get a nice feeling of satisfaction when the last three numbers on a (UK) car numberplate can be made into some kind of sum.

I've been doing this for years and I don't see it stopping any time soon...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:54, 5 replies)

Counting shit
Every time I watch a film or TV I count the letters in the words someone says (one word per finger).

Sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it until i see my hands flapping about as if I'm trying to play the piano. Worst of all is that I don't even keep a running total, I just keep on going until I can't remember all the words that were said then I get angry that I lost.
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:54, Reply)

I can only masturbate.....
....whilst thinking of your Mum.
(stonersmurf stuckin' foned, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:51, 2 replies)

A dangerous lyric for me should I ever learn to drive is from New Model Army's "125mph":
"I'm heading North; I'm heading home, doing 125,
Close my eyes and count to ten - haha! And I'm still alive ... "

Oh boy. I understand people who get vertigo wanting to throw themselves off the edge if they get too close.

If I was behind the wheel I'd be so tempted to do that.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:50, 1 reply)

Got a few odd habits
1) I absolutely hate silence, and will avoid it as much as possible. If I am forced into a situation with silence, I will have some kind of mental feedback loop of music going on in my head, which usually calms me. I have been known to occasionally hum stuff to myself without realising it.

2) Likewise, I cannot actually sleep unless I am listening to pink noise on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and brown noise on the other days. I am actually properly mental over this, and this has caused me to stay awake some nights whenever I've had girlfriends over for the night, because they won't let me listen to it on my iPod.

3) I must have an even number of towels in the bathroom before showering, and an uneven number before leaving it. I don't know where this comes from, as nobody else I have ever spoken to has heard of this before.

Yes, I am actually batshit insane.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:50, 3 replies)

I guess if I have any trace it manifests in playing computer games
on games like Civilization I like to pointlessly keep playing after winning to totally annihilate the opposition. though this is probably a combination of garden-variety megalomania and a perverted dopamine reward system, rather than OCD
apart from this, I have the kind of slovenly disordered approach to life that would drive OCD sufferers even more nuts
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:49, 2 replies)

Am I the only one
that, when being driven in a car or going somewhere in a train, will look out of the window and choose an object that can be seen throughout the journey (e.g. lampost, street light, other cars) and will try to blink, clench teeth, tap toes or all three in a repetitive patern trying to make sure that when I do this one of the objects I have chosen does not come into or out of view.

I've found that it doesn't work so well in planes so find myself to be pretending to sleep for as much of the journey as I can.
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:46, 1 reply)

o is for orange, o is for oddball
If I eat a piece of satsuma and it has a little retard-baby-sized segment of satsuma attached, I have to bite their heads off simultaneously and cleanly so the 'parent' and 'baby' segments don't have to watch each other die.

I will also stop people in public if they have noticeable blackhead pimples and inform them. If a friend has a blackhead, I can't see that friend until the offending blemish is gone. I once split up with a boyfriend who had a big blackhead on his chest and wouldn't get rid of it, and frankly, I'd do it again. I can't fucking bear dirty, disgusting, lumpy, pestilent, sebacious, shiny, menacing blackheads. GAH!
(dancebiscuits, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:40, 8 replies)

I can only have sex in sets of 10

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:39, 2 replies)

My other
half says I have mild OCD but it only manifests itself when I post on here
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:36, Reply)

My other half says
I have mild OCD but it only manifests itself when I post on here
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:35, Reply)

My other half
says I have mild OCD but it only manifests itself when I post on here
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:35, Reply)

microwaving = scuba-diving
Whenever I microwave something that needs 2 bursts (you know, zap, stir, zap) the first go must always ALWAYS be longer than the second. Even if it's only by a second or two, and even if the second time needs to be longer. But I can't. I just... can't.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:29, 2 replies)

Last time me and a mate went out on the piss
I bet him free beers all night that I could speak just in haiku form all evening. Ordering drinks was weird. I pulled it off though. But it took me 4 days to get out of the habit.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:25, 7 replies)