What do you say when you talk to yourself?

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Go on. I won't laugh at you.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, not the same thing each time, really.

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Get it together." or if I'm lucky "Keep it together."

Actually just moaned out loud when I read that my town's last remaining urban movie theatre will be closing THURSDAY!
First the libraries, now the movie theatres. Next thing you know, they're gonna stop running electricity through downtown.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Usually a combination of swearwords said in a cringing way because I have just remembered something stupid I did any time in the last ten years. It happens mostly when I'm doing something that allows my mind to wander, eg. washing up or (v. embarrassingly) sitting on the bus.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I find myself listing my To Do list out loud in the car. You know, like, "Ok, I've to do laundry and go grocery shopping, but I don't really feel like grocery shopping, so maybe I should just try to get some laundry done tonight and make dinner. Or maybe I could just order food.."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"god damnit"

"dude!"

or some other exclamation, although sometimes it'll be a "what the fuck am I doing?" or "damnit brane!" and most often "fuck YOU memory!" when I try to leave my house and realize I've forgotten something (ie every time I step out the door).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What about when you think of the Lucksmiths, Madchen?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I talk about the Precious.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm my own hypeman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I always say the phrase, 'Treader Measure'.

― w. green, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark - eh?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"...cringing [...] because I have just remembered something stupid I did any time in the last ten years" - I seem to remember the L*cksmiths fitting into that quite nicely?

I'll shut up now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, are you being a twat in public for a specific reason?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You address yourself as 'Mark', AF?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've taken on the identity of Mark C, as it's currently vacant (ho ho)

― jess (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf Andrew? What the fuck business is it of yours to slag me over a friendly exchange with a friend? I'm sure Madchen can call me a twat herself should she so choose (and she's done it often enough before).

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"meow". stuff like that.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"oh dear, it's another of those bad-tempered days in ILX Towers. Must make sure I don't inflame the situation in any way"

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

A public exchange is up for public commentary. And someone has to police the quality of slagging around here.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Usually a combination of swearwords said in a cringing way because I have just remembered something stupid I did any time in the last ten years"

This is me. Except the stupid stuff I did goes back 25 years. It's like I have Tourettes or something- something will trigger a memory and I'll just start muttering/swearing.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"you stupid sonofabitch"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm my daddy!"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I belm at myself whenever I do something stupid. I am quite clumsy so this happens quite a lot.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

for real? self-belming is masturbation.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe "someone" should learn to figure out what's slagging and what isn't.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Remember that thing you did?"

"What?"

"That thing you did that was stupid. That was stupid, wasn't it?"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew, you know *nothing* about the whole thing. Why not butt out?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if you have a two sided conversation with yourself, you got issues.

er, i reckon.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

motherfucker motherfucker motherfucker motherfucker motherfucker

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like I have Tourettes or something- something will trigger a memory and I'll just start muttering/swearing.
THANK GOD. I too have wondered if I have tourettes. Really, I have.

*Madchen clunks Mark and Andrew's heads together*

Stop it, you two. Sigh. Mark, stop namedropping on other people's behalfs (behalves?) I do not cringe about time spent getting drunk, laughing lots and enjoying the company of nice people. Andrew, Mark is allowed to be mean to me sometimes - it gives me a good excuse to thump him when I see him in person (Thursday night - SW London will echo to his screams).

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite regularly interview myself, Paxman-gone-schiz-style.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I shouldn't have said that, should I?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Just to add context, I interview my fantasy/future self, so I ask about my novel or album, or about my last game of CM as if I really was a football manager. Or whatever.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Junior Senior's DYNAMITE!"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't making me look any more sane, is it?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Soemtimes, in the car, I turn the radio off and interview myself instead.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Usually a combination of swearwords said in a cringing way because I have just remembered something stupid I did any time in the last ten years"

I'm even sadder: if I recall something stupid I said or did, I will begin mumbling or singing completely random words/phrases just to get the thought out of my head. Then I'll catch myself, and feel even worse!

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am now trying hard not to say every single thought outloud. Especially "hmm now what do I say to myself ARGH AM I TWITCHING"?

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot tell you how glad it makes me to discover that cringing is apparently normal!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sometimes I like to wear women's panties and walk down fifth street"

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done that interview thing on occasion. I thought it was just me. I still find it quite disturbing, though.

Otherwise, mostly I just moan and curse to myself.

― ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.comicreaders.com/images/pictures/portajohnnypanel.gif

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew it couldn't be that weird.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

'chocolate biscuits' today in the car because i wanted some and because i was wondering if british people would deign to call oreos chocolate biscuits, but those weren't the kind i wanted - more like cocoa flavored.

other times, i talk to myself, again usually in the car, not cursing at other drivers, but in french cursing myself, usually replaying some scenario from earlier in the day when i acted really stupid.

― youn, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND
I AM THE LIIIIIGHT..."

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm relieved to see nobody has answered with anything along the lines of "mummy, I want to kill a prostitute".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i had this book when i was really little called "noisy nora". everytime i do something stupid, i quote this line to myself-
"nora, said her sister, "why are you so dumb?"

unfortunately, sometimes i say it out loud, which really confuses people.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Depends on how good the day was. Good? "I rock!" Bad? "Kill All Hippies" (Quietly, sos I don't get pulled.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Daisies."
"Daisies."
[repeat]

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The two most popular things for me to utter under my breath to myself would be "Damn it, you really messed up that time, didn't you?", and "Oh, excuse me -- I'm terribly sorry." Sometimes I'll shake up the picture by turning my criticism away from myself and toward someone else, as in when I utter "asshole" or "dillweed" in the vehicle when someone is driving quite stupidly and/or recklessly in my vicinity. It's loud enough to where, if I were to have the vehicle filled with passengers, everyone would be able to hear, but not loud enough to where everyone outside the vehicle would be able to.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I say 'clear you mind' to myself all the time. Product of too much meditation. Earlier today I was saying to myself, more or less unconsciously, but out loud, 'What I would like now is to have fun in a context where I'm not having to shore up my sense of social worth'. I said it so loudly that I had to look around and make sure no-one was getting nervous.

What I note from all this is that my self-talk is much more positive than many of you. Which makes me a better person.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone really should write a parody book called "I'm OK, you're not OK"

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

turbo!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I interview my fantasy/future self, so I ask about my novel or album, or about my last game of CM as if I really was a football manager.

OMG I thought I was the only loon who did this. I used to do it a lot more than I do nowdays. I'd be visualising posing for a pic for NME and everything, heh. I dont usually say stuff totally aloud tho - mainly cos I'm doing it while walking down the street, so I catch myself muttering under my breath like a crazy person.

Sometimes I also have a chat with a phantom shrink. Cheaper than the real thing and works suprisingly much of the time.

When I was a kid, I had a tape player/recorder and I used to switch it on and just talk into it. I'd regurgitate ads from TV, say random whatever came into my head, and sometimes I'd listen back to the tapes enough that I knew what I'd said on them before... SO I'D SAY IT ON TAPE AGAIN. I also drew comics and "spoke" the characters and story instead of text/speech balloons.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm autistic or some shit. I still have some of the tapes. They're cute but a bit odd.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I never ever talk to myself.
I guess it's cause I can, you know, hear what I'm thinking.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

" I hope I make the funny thread, I hope I make the funny thread, I hope I make the funny thread",

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sometimes I also have a chat with a phantom shrink."

That is a great, great idea. I am going to try that one.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It really is quite interesting. I mean, were I to go see one I'd be babbling crap at them anyway so why not just freeform it in my own head?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, god, what DON'T I talk to myself about? I actually do dialogue between character voices aloud -- sometimes when I'm not even alone. People at work are used to it to the point where they'll tune out everything I say, even when I AM consciously trying to communicate. If any of you ever have children, for god's sake don't raise them in Bumfuck Nowhere. For lack of anything else to do they start talking to voices and from there on in it's Raised by Wolves... except the kid himself is, so to speak, the wolf.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

now that i think about it, nothing i ever say to myself is very nice!

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

but my french isn't very good, so i usually say stuff like "tu es bete comme une vache" to myself. at other times, i'll get sleepy, so i yell "i'm wide awake, i'm wide awake" with the windows wide open.

― youn, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I've done character voices aloud too. Sometimes for story ideas that I'm simply too apathetic to bother writing down (or it happens to be a lot of plotless talky rubbish not worth writing down).

My communication skills seem to be hell of a lot better in this context than in reality. Go figure.

― ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

cusswords, mostly

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm not going to go on ILX today"

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

" I hope I make the funny thread, I hope I make the funny thread, I hope I make the funny th-- @d@ml (nordi">read",
-- @d@ml (nordicskilla@hotmail.com) (webmail), December 3rd, 2003. (nordicskilla)

OK everyone, you know what @d@m wants - let's lovebomb him by putting every one of his posts in the funny thread.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 4 December 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i just say the kind of things that you'd like to be able to say to people but that if you do they don't really care that much so it's not worth it like just stuff about what's going on at the moment or what i'm thinking about - a play-by play if you will

― ron (ron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I do that - vocalise what Im thinking etc. Like "oops no thats the wrong button" and "ok I see why that happened" and "dammit stove why won't you light!" and so on. People at work must think I'm patently insane. Which I am fnord teakettle lobster.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine working on Cubase highlights individual blocks and drags them across to new locations, saying, 'You, you and you - come with me', like a stern teacher.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

that kicks ass!

hmm teakettle lobster? does anybody else get mildly preturbed when other people come into range and you have to stop talking to yourself? (or do you just keep on)

― ron (ron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who does character voices -- sometimes I worry the SAG will come beat me up for romping on their territory without a license or even a recommendation from a high school drama teacher.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Go on, do it. You know you want to."

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember from one of Richard Feynman's books that he said he had two voices in his head: one that postulated some crazy theory and tried to prove it, and another that simply said, 'No, you're crazy'.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound more like a cross between Golem and the crew on Red Dwarf.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"go rusty, go"

― r crowe, Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i just sing

― reg presley, Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Der Golem?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I talk to my penis when I pee. "Come on baby", I say. Performance anxiety you see - it needs encouragement.

― regular, Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Generally at work I mutter "how the f**k can people that stupid have a job?" and "what a f***ing moron" and other random insults just loud enough so that my idiot co-workers can hear. Except I'm talking to myself, not insulting them directly.

Sorry, make that EX-co-workers! Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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