Do you talk to yourself?

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Posted: 9/19/2004 10:09:25 AM EDT

I talk to myself sometimes when no one else is around. Not just out of the blue, mind you, but in reactions to occurances. For instance, if I see Hitlery on TV I might say, "Commie Bitch get off my screen." Or in other instances (like today) while reading certain posts, I said, "What in the world were you thinking?" And just a moment ago I checked the pie thread and saw that nobody got my joke and I said, "dang folks - you just skipped right over that."

Is this uncommon? Do any of you talk to yourselves? I have an otherwise normal life. And this isn't a new thing. I've done this for years. But I just never asked anyone if they did the same thing.

I'll throw a poll up for the ones who don't want to admit they don't talk to themselves.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:12:10 AM EDT

[#1]

Yes I do and then wonder what I said.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:16:35 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Yes I do and then wonder what I said.

When you read what you are about to post, do you talk it or just read it? Not responses but a post you author.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:16:40 AM EDT

[#3]

For the last 5 years at work, I have worked with 4 other people in a big ass warehouse on the evening shift. I have noticed that I will express my thoughts out loud, I guess from loneliness, but you can't turn it off completely away from work. Kind of embarassing when you do it and someone else is around.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:18:59 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
For the last 5 years at work, I have worked with 4 other people in a big ass warehouse on the evening shift. I have noticed that I will express my thoughts out loud, I guess from loneliness, but you can't turn it off completely away from work. Kind of embarassing when you do it and someone else is around.

Oh, its not embarassing at all for me if someone overhears. That has never even occured to me. Why is it embarassing?

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:19:35 AM EDT

[#5]

Just with the voices in my head.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:20:15 AM EDT

[#6]

No, I don't. (Yes you do). Shutup!

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:23:16 AM EDT

[#7]

I seem to ... because no one else bothers to listen.

Just don't talk to the TV....that is sick.

MT

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:24:45 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
No, I don't. (Yes you do). Shutup!

Actually, that brings up another question. I wonder if anyone asks themselves a question and then answers it. I guess that would be an ocassion when one would be embarassed if another person overheard.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:25:31 AM EDT

[#9]

YES !!! When you get over 50 it happens alot , is that good or bad, I dont know just send the message, ok ok its done, are you happy now, what did you say, Oh never mind

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:26:12 AM EDT

[#10]

Yes, but only when I'm speaking in tongues.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:27:23 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
I seem to ... because no one else bothers to listen.

Just don't talk to the TV....that is sick.

MT

You don't even make simple comments to the television? Like, "Ha! Yeah, right!"

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:27:33 AM EDT

[#12]

Only at work because I need someone intellegent to talk to

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:29:38 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Only at work because I need someone intellegent to talk to

Yes, like the old joke, "I ask myself questions all the time - its the only way to get a smart reply!"

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:30:14 AM EDT

[#14]

Just the occasional "Fuckin A!" while reading the arfcom.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:33:30 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Just the occasional "Fuckin A!" while reading the arfcom.

I mostly talk when on this site. Many times I'll look back at the previous evenings posts I entered and say, "what the hell prompted me to say something like that?"

And that eventually led to the reason of my new sig line.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:36:28 AM EDT

[#16]

I used to ... but about 3 years ago, what I said to myself insulted me real bad.... I admit... I WAS HURT.

I havent talked to myself since then. I kinda miss those old days when I just sat down and talked to myself about the good old days. Maybe I just need to bury the hatchet and give myself a call. Catch up once again on old times.

I think I will. I miss me.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:40:39 AM EDT

[#17]

sometimes I feel like I am posting to myself

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:44:52 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
I used to ... but about 3 years ago, what I said to myself insulted me real bad.... I admit... I WAS HURT.

I havent talked to myself since then. I kinda miss those old days when I just sat down and talked to myself about the good old days. Maybe I just need to bury the hatchet and give myself a call. Catch up once again on old times.

I think I will. I miss me.

Just do it. You'll regret it if you don't.

Sing this song: "I love myself, I love me so, I took myself to a picture show. I wrapped my arms around my waist, I even tried to kiss my face."

And then break out the hand lotion.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:45:38 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:46:35 AM EDT

[#20]

Well, thanks for all your replies - I'm off to see the DFW crew at LordTrader's dinner gathering in Dallas.

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:49:31 AM EDT

[#21]

Yes, but i'm hard of hearing so I have no idea what I said

Posted: 9/19/2004 11:02:29 AM EDT

[#22]

yes i do but still don't know what the hell am taking about.

Posted: 9/19/2004 11:05:10 AM EDT

[#23]

As long as it's not a two sided conversation, you should be ok.
I don't talk to myself. I think out loud.

Posted: 9/19/2004 11:56:28 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
No, I don't. (Yes you do). Shutup!

We are the only one's making sense these days. :-)

Posted: 9/19/2004 12:44:11 PM EDT

[#25]

No, never. Unless I smash my finger or something.
Talking to yourself is like moving your lips when you read.

Posted: 9/19/2004 12:46:55 PM EDT

[#26]

I find the best place to talk to yourself is on the crapper, that way you've got to listen to what you've got to say and can't just walk off. My wife laughs at me for talking to myself on the crapper, guess she just don't understand, it's the only way I can get an intellegent conversation around here,LOL.

Posted: 9/19/2004 1:35:11 PM EDT

[#27]

Yes but only when i am like taking something apart i say how i tok it apart and i remember how to put it back together.

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:31:26 PM EDT

[#28]

Here's a kicker. When I took "Human Growth and Development" in college, a study was shown that people who talk to themselves usually have a higher level of intelligence.

"...do you like apples?" "I got her number. How 'bout them apples?"

LT's party was great. It was a blast seeing everyone again. And I finally got to meet Doublefeed and DVDTracker.

A treat, indeed!

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:32:48 PM EDT

[#29]

I have a math professor that suggested that we talk to ourselves! He said our grades would improve.

Posted: 9/19/2004 5:58:11 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I have a math professor that suggested that we talk to ourselves! He said our grades would improve.

They just might!!!

Posted: 9/19/2004 6:02:28 PM EDT

[#31]

No, I don't talk to myselves...

And who told you?

Posted: 9/19/2004 6:06:55 PM EDT

[#32]

When I traded bonds in CA. I use to talk to myself when going thru yield and duration calculations. I find I talk to myself when driving as well. Like going over what I need to do. Something like, " OK Al, if you go to the cleaners first then to WalMart then to get dinner. You can do this in one shot going up on Coit.....Oh look at that blonde hottie, nice tits." "Woh that bitch in the other is Fuuuugggglyyyy" "Man, that Porche is niiicceee. I bet if I had that I can get laid by that blonde with the nice tits" "With my luck, I'd have to do the fugly chick in the Corolla to get the Porsche so I can bump uglies with the blonde with the nice tits in that red convertible."

Typically these conversations will last until I take my Prozac.

Posted: 9/19/2004 6:15:00 PM EDT

[#33]

I usually don't talk to myself. However I play golf a lot and as a result I say "You fucking dumbass, what the fuck where you thinking, hitting the ball like that!" and "You fucking pussy, hit the goddamned ball!" "Get your head out of your ass and play like you are suppose to" also frequently come out of my mouth.

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:11:52 PM EDT

[#34]

i talk to myself often
and maybe play with myself too is that wrong?

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:32:11 PM EDT

[#35]

It's just that it's sometimes eaiser to understand with I'm thinking if I vocalize it so I can hear it. It's like speaking it makes it real, hey, it worked for God, why not us.LOL

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:35:28 PM EDT

[#36]

I talk to myself, but, like my wife, I've learned to ignore me.

Posted: 9/19/2004 7:56:52 PM EDT

[#37]

No, I don't like the replies I get

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:06:32 PM EDT

[#38]

No one else will talk to me

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:07:05 PM EDT

[#39]

Yes, I live and work alone, Im my onlu company.

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:09:45 PM EDT

[#40]

I used to when I was running CNC but I don't "Think" that counts 'cause it's a machinists thing..."What the hell you do THAT for?[As your End-mill crashes into the set-up] "

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:25:25 PM EDT

[#41]

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Quoted:
I seem to ... because no one else bothers to listen.

Just don't talk to the TV....that is sick.

MT
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You don't even make simple comments to the television? Like, "Ha! Yeah, right!"

I am scared to ...It might answer...Then where would I be!

MT

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:35:42 PM EDT

[#42]

I've always had a tough time talking to myself because I'm always being interrupted by cosmic radio waves.

Posted: 9/19/2004 8:41:00 PM EDT

[#43]

only when I have bad headaches, going up in the tower with a scoped rifle is soothing

Posted: 9/19/2004 10:59:29 PM EDT

[#44]

I talk to myself sometimes, and I talk to my car and even pat it sometimes.

Posted: 9/19/2004 11:59:39 PM EDT

[#45]

I learned to fly not too long after learning to drive.

One of the things my instructors taught me is that it's better when doing things (like running a checklist or going over an approach procedure) is that if you say everything out loud you're more likely to notice if you miss something or if you're thinking one thing and the procedure calls for something else, you're more likely to catch it if you vocalize it.

30 years later I still talk to myself when doing anything of a similar nature.

Posted: 9/20/2004 12:36:40 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
I learned to fly not too long after learning to drive.

One of the things my instructors taught me is that it's better when doing things (like running a checklist or going over an approach procedure) is that if you say everything out loud you're more likely to notice if you miss something or if you're thinking one thing and the procedure calls for something else, you're more likely to catch it if you vocalize it.

30 years later I still talk to myself when doing anything of a similar nature.