I cannot watch pimple-pop vidz (shudder), but I have a bizarre fascination with farrier vidz (also shudder). Hooves are so strange, like teeth you walk on.
I have the same issue most especially with finger tips. My hands are pretty tough, but my fingertips have always been stupid sensitive and it pisses me off. I can't watch videos with fingertips getting damage. Even in films usually.
More like super thick toenails. What makes them strange is that that horses only have 1 toe per foot. Things moving underneath the skin, squig me out.
I don't mind receiving an injection. I donate blood regularly and can watch the tech slide that giant needle into my arm, no problem. I can't watch someone else get a shot, though, even on television. I have to turn away from the screen, even though I know it's fake. These days, most of the television news stories are about Covid, and they seem to be unable to run those stories without an establishing scene showing ... someone getting an injection. Not crazy about the veterinarian shows, either, especially when they're performing castrations.
I confess that I don't pay as much attention to Amber Alerts (like the one on my phone this morning) when it's obvious that the perpetrator is one of the child's parents.
I don't when they're not remotely in the same time zone as I am. Spoiler Haven't watched CNN in years, but for a while Japan was on the US feed. Very sad that Jenny in Kansas is missing, but any unaccompanied white kid here is presumed lost.
Mine go off when I'm listening to audiobooks on my earbuds. The volume is ear-piercing. I can't believe my phone lets it sound out so loudly. It warns me all the time about listening at high volumes and then tries to deafen me. It's usually nowhere near me anyway. Texas is kind of a big place. It's a ten hour drive to some of these cities. I guess a lot of them take off running for other parts of the country though, so maybe it makes sense. They never have enough information on them though. I'm supposed to keep an eye out for a Toyota Somethingorother with no license plate and no info on who's missing? Come on. Help us out here.
I confess I don't understand the collector mentality. Gathering three hundred ceramic owls doesn't strike me as an activity for grownups.
All things said and done .... I don't like to read books. I like to write them, but I don't like to read them (hiding face, ashamed).
I think it's a mentality in completeness. You get a few items of a certain area that interest you, but then you realize how much more there that you are 'missing out' on, so you need to get more. I'll admit, I'm a collector of the Halo book and game series, and my collection has grown quite ridiculous over the years. I have close to five hundred different pieces to the collection. But it is one of my hobbies and having them around makes me happy. In my next house I hope to have an extra room that i can make the Halo room where I can build up sand tables of specific battles and hang up some of the ships in the fleets. Yes, my collection is getting out of hand...
Ah, but it is these very ceramic owl collectors (and collectors of all things) that make sure they will be around for future generatios. Some collect, some take it to the next level, hoarding. Some collect spoons, and then trade them in a language only spoon collectors understand. I'm glad these folks are around. We have lots of odd antiques and collectibles still around from who knows when because someone decided to collect them. Miner's lamps, books from the 1500s, pewter plates from 1700s, original Gibson guitars and bone-shaker bicycles. Wind-up robots from the 50s. Ever watch the TV show American Pickers? Collecting ceramic owls might fall under obsessive compulsive behavior, I admit.
There is also the notion that if you mention you like ceramic owls (or something or other) a million people will start giving them to you at every opportunity. !!! Every birthday, Christmas, etc ...oh wow, another ceramic OWL! Yikes. I knew somebody that happened to with pigs ...ceramic pigs. She said she liked pigs, and had a few figurines around. Then suddenly pigs began to appear in all shapes and sizes. I remember her telling me she now hated pig statues, but was afraid to offend all the people who had given them to her. Awww.... Moral: if somebody is a collector, let THEM do the collecting! Unless there is something specific they said they are looking for.
So very true. I had friends, a couple, who decided to collect cows related to the kitchen. Salt & papper shakers, sugar bowl and creamer, utensil holder and spoon rest, the like. They didn't need to say anyting, and yet cows started to pour in. Every birthday and holiday. It was pretty awkward when two friends bought the same gift. The couple would open one, and you could see another friend with the 'oh shit' look on their face. Your moral could avoid these embarassing situations.
I dealt with this by making Amazon wishlists for my Halo stuff and sharing it with family members, so if they're feeling lazy they can always look there. And feed my addiction...
This changes periodically with replays, but I would say it's a tie between 2 and Halo Wars. I like the games a fair bit less than the book series though, at least after the book series really gets going.
