Whatever inanimate object I am pissed at currently… Like the table leg i stub my toe on, the screw I drop and can’t recover, the speaker with the dead battery… Etc
@2many2no That’s titled “Best intro”, but it actually starts after the intro: the video where Jerry Stiller complains they never play “Passage to Bangkok” (hence Stiller’s appearance on the video screen at 3:37)
@2many2no I’ve been watching some ‘reaction’ videos to Rush on YouTube lately. It’s kind of astonishing that there are actual musicians out there doing those videos who aren’t at all familiar with them. As expected, every single one of them seems to be blown away while watching.
@sammydog01 When I was a kid, mother used to break into the opening lines after she’d tell us something and we’d totally blithely disregard/ignore what we had just been told.
I never realized where it came from until I was well into my adult years and every once in awhile I’ll sing it to myself under the same circumstances.
@LaVikinga@sammydog01 We sang it in school choir as part of a medley of songs when the movie came out. I had not seen the movie yet, but it’s now one of my favorites. I watch it every few years.
I like to talk to myself. So much so that I created an alternate account here so I could try and convince myself that my favorite pumpkin flavored ‘politician’ has a fucking clue.
There is some interesting research that some people (the percentage was pretty high but I don’t remember it) don’t have a voice in their head to internally (silently) talk to themselves (so not meaning talk out loud, rather “thinking” in words). They think in images or “just know”. As I use words in my head much of the time and occasionally the other two methods, I can’t really imagine only using one of the other “methods”. As an aside they didn’t find anything about differences in how people do this that is related to intelligence or anything, it was just looking at how people think.
There is some recent research that some people who are totally blind can still navigate a room full of objects (no cane or anything) as if they could see the objects even when they couldn’t. Others crashed right into them. These folks weren’t (mostly) even aware they could do this as they didn’t know which rooms they were walking through that had nothing in it and which ones had stuff in the way. I didn’t read the research carefully enough to see what they found about brains and senses when people could do this, but I found it interesting some people could do that even though they were totally blind.
@moonhat I know. I find this kind of stuff fascinating. I love science and especially science having to do with humans. Had I not hated chemistry so much I would have gotten my PhD in genetics rather than what I got it in. Too bad I was a stupid teen with a minimally functioning frontal lobe and just didn’t suffer through the rest of those chemistry classes. One’s frontal lobe doesn’t fully develop until you are 30 and is, amongst other things, responsible for both anticipating consequences of actions but especially anticipating long term consequences of actions to make it more likely you will decide for, in this case, short term suffering.
@Kidsandliz@moonhat I’m fascinated by the kind of research that Oliver Sacks does on the brain and perception; I also wish I could go back and tell my younger self to learn those science topics I avoided in school.
@goldnectar LOL. I tricked a 7 year old to make his back talk comments to adults in his head rather than using his mouth. I convinced him that (besides not getting into trouble as much) he’d have the advantage that the adult would never know he was making those kinds of comments, he’d be able to have last word and be able to get away with it, and then he might find good things come his way for being overtly polite. I also had to coach him that if he wanted to be really sneaky about it he had to have a pleasant expression on his face. No idea how long it lasted as I never asked but my cousin (I babysat her two kids so she could go on her honeymoon) wanted to know what I had done to stop the fighting between him and his grandmother (my aunt).
@goldnectar@Kidsandliz I was in a marriage counseling session when I turned to my spouse and said, “You know, the point in time that I really started getting along better with people was when I stopped saying everything that came into my mind.” A caught a little smile from the therapist, while my spouse went silent for a bit, perhaps practicing that technique for the first time.
If there are no ones I guess I’ll talk to the zeroes.
Whatever inanimate object I am pissed at currently… Like the table leg i stub my toe on, the screw I drop and can’t recover, the speaker with the dead battery… Etc
No one. I like peace and quiet.
@hchavers Me too!
I talk to myself when no one’s around…I talk to my dog regardless of who is listening.
Wow! Lots of other people talk to themselves too. I guess we aren’t weird after all eh buddy?
Inanimate objects
@spitfire6006006
No one.
I talk to myself because I’m the most interesting person I know. Who’s more interesting than people who talk to themselves?
The TV set, when whatever (or whoever) is on is pissing me off. It happens a lot these days.
Myself. I even sometimes win the arguments
!
@Oldelvis I never win those arguments…
One of my other personalities–so, I guess, my other self.
@phendrick … who is younger than I and better looking and doesn’t show up in my selfies, so must be dead…
Here’s something completely off-topic to talk to yourself about while you’re wasting time.
@2many2no That’s titled “Best intro”, but it actually starts after the intro: the video where Jerry Stiller complains they never play “Passage to Bangkok” (hence Stiller’s appearance on the video screen at 3:37)
@2many2no I’ve been watching some ‘reaction’ videos to Rush on YouTube lately. It’s kind of astonishing that there are actual musicians out there doing those videos who aren’t at all familiar with them. As expected, every single one of them seems to be blown away while watching.
There. Is. Never. No. One. Around.
At least that’s how it seems sometimes.
I talk to the trees, but they don’t listen to me.
@LaVikinga That tune is so familiar somehow but I didn’t know it had words. Thanks!
@sammydog01 When I was a kid, mother used to break into the opening lines after she’d tell us something and we’d totally blithely disregard/ignore what we had just been told.
I never realized where it came from until I was well into my adult years and every once in awhile I’ll sing it to myself under the same circumstances.
@LaVikinga Funny, I thought he just talked to empty chairs.
@LaVikinga @sammydog01 We sang it in school choir as part of a medley of songs when the movie came out. I had not seen the movie yet, but it’s now one of my favorites. I watch it every few years.
At about 10 seconds
I like to talk to myself. So much so that I created an alternate account here so I could try and convince myself that my favorite pumpkin flavored ‘politician’ has a fucking clue.
Oh wait, that wasn’t me.
@cinoclav Clavvy! I hope not!
@moonhat Definitely not. I’m man enough to stand up for myself and my opinion.
There is some interesting research that some people (the percentage was pretty high but I don’t remember it) don’t have a voice in their head to internally (silently) talk to themselves (so not meaning talk out loud, rather “thinking” in words). They think in images or “just know”. As I use words in my head much of the time and occasionally the other two methods, I can’t really imagine only using one of the other “methods”. As an aside they didn’t find anything about differences in how people do this that is related to intelligence or anything, it was just looking at how people think.
There is some recent research that some people who are totally blind can still navigate a room full of objects (no cane or anything) as if they could see the objects even when they couldn’t. Others crashed right into them. These folks weren’t (mostly) even aware they could do this as they didn’t know which rooms they were walking through that had nothing in it and which ones had stuff in the way. I didn’t read the research carefully enough to see what they found about brains and senses when people could do this, but I found it interesting some people could do that even though they were totally blind.
@Kidsandliz interesting!!!
@moonhat I know. I find this kind of stuff fascinating. I love science and especially science having to do with humans. Had I not hated chemistry so much I would have gotten my PhD in genetics rather than what I got it in. Too bad I was a stupid teen with a minimally functioning frontal lobe and just didn’t suffer through the rest of those chemistry classes. One’s frontal lobe doesn’t fully develop until you are 30 and is, amongst other things, responsible for both anticipating consequences of actions but especially anticipating long term consequences of actions to make it more likely you will decide for, in this case, short term suffering.
@Kidsandliz @moonhat I’m fascinated by the kind of research that Oliver Sacks does on the brain and perception; I also wish I could go back and tell my younger self to learn those science topics I avoided in school.
I would say myself or the doggo, however I talk to both regardless of who is listening!!! The older we get the less we care what others think
Why was there no, “I use my inner monologue like a big boy” option?
@goldnectar LOL. I tricked a 7 year old to make his back talk comments to adults in his head rather than using his mouth. I convinced him that (besides not getting into trouble as much) he’d have the advantage that the adult would never know he was making those kinds of comments, he’d be able to have last word and be able to get away with it, and then he might find good things come his way for being overtly polite. I also had to coach him that if he wanted to be really sneaky about it he had to have a pleasant expression on his face. No idea how long it lasted as I never asked but my cousin (I babysat her two kids so she could go on her honeymoon) wanted to know what I had done to stop the fighting between him and his grandmother (my aunt).
@goldnectar @Kidsandliz I was in a marriage counseling session when I turned to my spouse and said, “You know, the point in time that I really started getting along better with people was when I stopped saying everything that came into my mind.” A caught a little smile from the therapist, while my spouse went silent for a bit, perhaps practicing that technique for the first time.
Fenris!
@PooltoyWolf I would definitely talk to Fenris.
@ThunderChicken He keeps all your secrets to himself, too!
@PooltoyWolf I’ll bet he could tell some stories!
@ThunderChicken You could say that.
Alexa.
All of the above.
Stanley, at least I think that’s his name. He doesn’t talk much. Wonder why…