The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[LocoColt04]

I had to come downstairs for this one. I don't think the PS3 would have let me input as much text into the box as I'd need to.


Why do you think you are unique?

I am, perhaps, too charismatic for my own good. My stalkers would disagree; they like me the way I am (weirdos...). My friends tell me I have a Charisma Stat of 65536 -- if you know anything of hex, you know the maximum field is 65535.

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What talents separate you from others? Be advised that I'm only looking for unique talents.

I have a memory like an iron trap. You name it, I remember it. Usernames, random events, phone numbers, directions (get me somewhere once and I'll never forget how to get there), and all sorts of other information gets lodged in my brain and sticks there forever. I remember phone numbers from when I was seven.

Unfortunately, all capacity for mental imagery seems to be null and void due to this. (With the direction thing, I simply have exceptional skill at pattern recognition and I'm good at recalling obvious landmarks.) This makes writing difficult at times as it is nigh impossible for me to come up with some sort of image in my brain depicting what the character or scene would /actually/ look like. A lot of the time, I get stuck in a wicked writers' block as a result.

I don't dream -- or, if I do, I don't EVER remember it.

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Has anyone ever referred to you as different/strange/weird/freak/insane?

Different? All the time.
Strange? Only when I say something off-color.
Weird? Quite regularly, in fact.
Freak? Actually... I haven't heard that since middle school.
Insane? I fractured my ankle last week and then worked a solid 40 hours... on my feet.

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How do you deal with the rest of the world, being so absurdly different as you are?

I watch. I listen, I learn, I observe. I seek patterns. I find stupidity. I giggle. People fascinate me. Animals too. So how do I "deal" with all of them? I don't. I let everyone and everything run their own courses unhindered.

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What title would you select to describe yourself, which we may refer to you openly?(NOTE: Please be unique)

Argentos is my characterized persona. He's the character I tend to be myself with. That'll work for me... or you can call me by my name. Everyone else does.

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@topic: What is, perhaps, most odd to me is everyone else's definition of "weird." It's a question I tend to ask people when I am first getting to know them. The first time I hear the words "that's weird" come out of their mouths, I spring the question on them to see what they feel is weird.

It's a roundabout way of crawling into their heads.

[Sinister]

@Loco: Ooh! The head admin! How prestigious! ; ) It is cool to have you in the club, Loco, because you are charismatic. Had you not 'fessed up to it, I would have brought it up. I can't speak for the other members, but I know what I am and what I am not. And I am hardly charismatic or inspirational. How much more effective is strangeness and being unique when one is well-liked and admired for it. : )

Welcome to the Theatre, Argentos.


@Discussion

I might as well take the opportunity to add my opinion. I find the weird and strange to be people who aim and direct their ambition to obtain levels of normalcy and tradition to such a degree that any departure to them is so blasphemous. So many people I've seen look down upon me as a Goth, my best friend for being a little ditsy albino, my other friend as a bit of a hippy/grunge and so many other variant personalities because they either differ or choose to differ.

It's not only weird and strange to me; it's a little sickening. I've been preached to by Ministers and yelled/glared at by old women for buying groceries and walking streets because I was dressed the way I like to dress. These people, so judgemental and set in their quaint cookie-cutter ways, are fine until they point their fingers at others in anger. Then they turn into the strangest beings I've ever seen. But I'm all too glad this club wasn't founded on MY idea of strange. Otherwise, I'd be forced to abandon it like a rat out of a sinking ship.

[LocoColt04]

It is cool to have you in the club, Loco, because you are charismatic. Had you not 'fessed up to it, I would have brought it up.

Don't worry, if there's one thing I've got no problems admitting, that's it.

A live example, if you will:

In my current job, I went from a new hire to low-end management in six weeks. Six months later, I snagged the assistant management position. What got me there? Charisma. Of course, in a sales environment, that's pretty much required for anyone who ever wants to advance... I just happened to do it far quicker than most.

I have more to add to the discussion and definition of the word "weird," but alas, I should be leaving for work right now. Someone's gotta open the store.

[Sinister]

Celtic! You're qualified. I've seen your qualifications in action j/k. Actually I was hoping you would join. To be the way that I know you are, you are unique. And it is welcome. Remember that one time you, Fishie and I...*sigh* but that was a while back anyways.

Welcome to the Theatre, Celtic.

[Govinda]

Why do you think you are unique?

Because I'm Heather, and there's only one of me. Simplistic, yes. But that's the way it works. Besides which, everyone tells me so all the time; oddball status is something I enjoy.

Here's the way I like to think of it. Life, the straight and narrow, is a busy road cutting in a direct line through the countryside. Most find themselves on the road, concentrating; no time to think, contemplate, stare, analyse. You'll find me milling around in the field by the road, hanging out with the cows, and staring at the sky. How I love the sky. It'd be even better if I thought there was a God hanging out up there.

What talents separate you from others? Be advised that I'm only looking for unique talents.

I wouldn't say talents, not for me at least. I smoke profously and play saxophone when I'm alone, and I'm in love with a long line of dead or near dead musicians.

What I think makes me different is the way I see things. The way I think. My analyses often bring me into conflict, because half of the world doesn't get it. But at the same time as being bolshy, tolerance is at the centre of my way of thinking.

And Halie, I play the ocarina too! My party peice is the whole Jurassic Park film score, played one two recorders, one per nostril. I can even do it with a sopranino (a wee baby recorder) and a tenor (a huge bastard of a thing) at the same time. I can impersonate Eric Cartman perfectly.



Has anyone ever referred to you as different/strange/weird/freak/insane?

95% of all the people I've ever met, yes. I'm different online; I'm a lot livelier in reality. But the walking paradox that I am can still be seen online.

How do you deal with the rest of the world, being so absurdly different as you are?

I talk to it nicely.

What title would you select to describe yourself, which we may refer to you openly?(NOTE: Please be unique)

You can call me Heather if you like.


And regarding the discussion, I find generally everything weird. Especially belief mechanisms, cats, and boring people.

[Sinister]

Govinda is, of course, more than welcome here. It's already become a very interesting club. It's well-known and admired by me, her powers of tolerance and open-mindedness. She's an excellent scholarly person with some interesting opinions.

Welcome to the Theatre, Heather.

[Joe]

Discussion 1 Being strange, what does weird mean to you?

Strange for me include the idea that society feels the need to conform everyone to certain standards (I.E. the status quo). It just seems so strange for society at large to shun others simply because they don't fit the typical image of what a person "should be" instead of what they are.

What I also find strange is that I'm currently enrolled in a college chemistry course, in place of High School Chem, yet I'm required to take the High School Chemistry standardized test, in order to "Prove my proficiency" as if being able to place into a college chem course didn't qualify me as proficient in high school.

Discussion 2 what's the weirdest thing that's happened to me or that I've ever seen?

Besides managing to find a date for junior prom, I'd have to say that one of the weirdest things I've ever seen was me about three years ago. I had worked for a feline-rescue mission, on a volunteer basis, and had contracted cat-scratch fever. during the course of the disease, a lymph node in my neck swelled to the size of a large egg. it also radiated heat. after about two and a half weeks of this, it ruptured, and I had to undergo surgery to drain the node. That was also the most painful experience of my life, since the anesthetic quit working almost ten minutes into the thirty minute procedure.