HAHA! That is awesome. I was just looking for a new camera because mine is a crap Canon PowerShot (A410; yeah, it's really cheap) and was thinking I needed a new one before I head out to a concert next month! :laughing:

The A410 is really a great little camera.
It's just old and slow, but back in the day (and still) it's taking pretty nice pictures.
If you're into messing with photography a bit but still want a compact camera, go for the Powershot SX210IS. If you just want to take pictures and have a camera you can carry easily, go for the Ixus 110IS (in the US that's called the Powershot SD960).
They're both great little camera's. The SX210IS offers a lot more in the way of settings. The lens is a bit better, the screen is a bit better, the zoom is brilliant (14 times is beautiful for concerts) But if it's just a camera to take to gigs, parties and friends (snapshot stuff) Don't bother spending all that money and go for the cheap Ixus 110IS (Powershot SD960). It's really value for money.

Want to go dirt cheap? Canon powershot A495. It's not much, but it's a nice camera for less than 80 dollars. It's fast, it's simple. It just works.

See what suits you. I have an SX200IS and an EOS 30D. I'm a bit spoiled I guess.

And whatever you do, don't throw your old camera away. There's always someone really happy with it, somewhere :).

I will not eat off plastic plates, ever. I don't mind drinking out of plastic cups, but only if they're cold drinks, never warm or hot. I can taste the plastic instead of my drink/food.

I have to eat my food in all equal amounts

I can't eat if my arms are cold, it drives me ****ing crazy

I don't like it when people touch a certain part between my shoulder blades, I go into hyperdefense mode if it's touched by anyone but me (and I can reach it). My boyfriend can if I'm expecting it.

I hate it when the sheet comes off my mattress too

I used to have a weird thing where I didn't touch money for the longest time

oh and I'm extremely EXTREMELY mouldphobic. If something in the fridge is a week near it's expiration date, I'll sniff it, bring it to my mother to sniff, then set it back where I got it. Then I'll take it out again, make someone else taste it, then put it back again and decide for a couple minutes whether to eat it. Then I'll test it, then I'll eat it.

The upside of this is I've never gotten sick from food.

I consider Best Before dates to be suggestions. I recently ate month old yogurt. It was fine.

- When I turn on a TV I flip through the channels in this order: 25, 28, 44, 47, 53, 22, 30, 17, 7, 29, 52, 32, 3, 6, 8. Alot of those I add on to the sequence the more I have watched the channel.

- Constantly have to chew on something. My main victims are the collars of my shirts. Worst habit ever. If you go through my closet pretty much every collar you see will be ruined.

- Constantly pick at the skin on the side of my thumbs, like right around the nail. Another great habit...

- If I'm ever in an awkward social situation I whip out my phone and randomlly scroll through it while putting a quizzical look on my face and muttering nonsense to myself.

- Every time I meet someone I ask their name and automatically never pay attention to what they say. Seriously this happens like every single time.

- When I used to play hockey competitively I had a ridiculous routine going, one that was so long I dont feel like typing it all out.

if something really bad happens to a character no matter what tv show I often change the channel especially if I know it is going to happen.

Same here man, I hate it. Immediately forget what they said. Not because I didnt listen or dont care, I just am terrible with names.

When I'm alone I will cry at just about anything on TV. It's kind of liberating.

the wiping out the phone thing is pretty awesome. I might have to try that some time.

I do something similar with meeting someone. When I ask their name and I find out what it is. It goes completely out of mind and out of sight. I continue the conversation with them without knowing their name and hope that I don't get put in the position where I do have to state their name. I try to get them to say their name again through conversation naturally but it doesn't always work out.

You gotta try it. It's a perfect fallback for those situations.

I can't really explain why the name thing happens. I think it's kind of like when you ask someone what's up or how it's going (seriously does anyone ever pay attention to those answers?). Most times when you randomlly meet someone or are introduced to someone you know it's usually just a one-time kind of thing, so maybe it's just like going through the motions like asking someone what's up.

well the what's up or how's it going is just part of the process of attempting to be friendly and interested in what's going on the person's life before you ask them or talk to them about whatever you really wanted to talk about.

Sometimes I remember what they say because a conversation might start up based on that answer but if it's just the generic "i'm fine"/"i'm good" then it's just to be pleasant/nice.

I hate when your not good and someone asks. What are you supposed to do, be like no Im super ****ty to a total stranger, then continue on in your day.

that question is so meaningless to me that when people ask even if I'm having a ****ty day i will just say I'm fine and if I want to talk about it I will but if I don't want to talk about how ****ty it is to a total stranger. I won't.

Haha, I'll respond a bit more to some of those later. They're great :D.
All I want to say now is: Mr Yorke, whatever you do, don't google autism :D

I have a slight bit of OCD when I'm supposed to do something

like if I need to call a client or the opposing lawyer, I need to wait until exactly the dot before I pick up the phone

Ha...I do this sometimes too. Then, afterwards I wonder "What just happened?" But, yes it helps the accumulated frustrations to come out.

I've noticed I had more of these totally nonsensical quirks when I was younger, like when turning up the volume on TV it had to be on 5, or at least some odd number; checking about 100 times if my wallet is in my bag when I'm out etc. I can't even remember all of them now because I totally lost them, to the point that I will now sometimes forget to bring my wallet when going out. I have become more disorganized. For example, I'll make a list of things to buy and then I will not bring that list with me. I do this every time. I guess that's my new quirk. I honestly cannot decide which is worse, being too neat in certain things, like I was before (which kind of brought unnecessary pressure on my mind) or being this disorganized and absent-minded. It's liberating and frustrating at the same time.

But, I do have one annoying relatively new quirk that I can't get rid of. Before going to sleep, I check about ten times if the entry door is locked. And then just as I lie down in bed I get up and check once more. I do this every night.

i've actually had this happen to me... physical zap, ramping up, experience of a physical sensation in a place which science tells me there can be none. honestly, i thought i would have a stroke very shortly after that. it's like the zap was on an elliptical orbit and happened probably 20 times every 30 or 40 seconds. it almost hurt but not really, cuz i wasn't even sure if it was real. really startling though... also happened while on psychedelics.

I cannot eat from a plate or spoon unless I have checked it to be clean. I have to check for any stains and whatever. Suprisingly, I can go without a shower for days, i am not a clean freak, i just hate eating from dirty things or drinking. I also find it difficult to drink from bottles someone else has drank from. Obviously this doesn't really apply to a girl i might like or when i am drunk.

I also always go back to the automated teller machine each time I withdraw money after I have walked out of the bank to see if the "need a receipt" screen is still there for fear of somebody hacking my account

I always press the outer sides of my wrists against my hips to crack them, its sort of weird.

If I'm nervous I always pop my dodgy left shoulder out and back in, its disgusting so I cover it with my hand. I never realise I do it til afterwards.

I always stroke the short side of my hair. Its awesome.

I always have to turn my radio up in even numbers, nearly crashed once trying to get from 15 to 14 :(.

In work I don't trust the cleanliness of the glasses in work, so I wash the pint glass that I use everytime exactly 3 times. No more. No less.

I ALWAYS fidget, I can't sit at peace.

I also always twitch my legs.

When I'm swimming I have to swim in sets of 4 x 25m, or 10 x 25m. No inbetweens. My last set is always 4 because there's 64 lenths to a mile, so it used to kill me not finishing my 10. So I swim in 4's alot now.

If stuff is lying on a table all messy, I'll leave it messy but square everything up to the edges.

No matter what the car, I take it on in my 1.3 fiesta. Not racing, I just like to be the first to pull away from say traffic lights ;). If I don't I feel quite inferior/deflated/empty. Weird.

When I'm eating my dinner i never sit on the couch. It's always the poofy or the floor.

I have tons more silly little quirks. But... I can't be arsed thinking what they are.

Hahaha, most of them are cute somehow :)

I share some of those quirks with you.

I'm totally opposite. It's almost impossible for me to get emotional watching TV or a movie. I actually seek those that can out. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm about to cry, but then I will just laugh for no apparent reason and it kills it.

When I'm with people, I don't feel much of anything, but when I'm alone? **** I've done it during stuff you'd expect like ER Vets, but then I've done it during Doctor Who and the Simpsons and South Park. And it feels GOOD.

I wish I could do that. I think my brain is conditioned to avoiding heavy emotions.

Sometimes, I've felt like there is something there that makes me have to swallow a bit hard which makes it kinda hard to talk and stuff and I assume that if that feeling was more intense, tears would come :p: They haven't yet, though.

I think guys from my generation and earlier were taught that guys are not supposed to have extreme emotions and they certainly don't cry. At least, I felt that was something I learned growing up in the 80s and 90s in Norway. I think from learning that, I eventually also became that. Sometimes I think it makes me a little dispassionate compared to others. Could I ever express strong emotion through some work of art? I'm not sure I could do that, though I could probably pretend like it. On the plus side, at least I'm not an emotional wreck.

Honestly, parents should be teaching their kids that there's a balance between the two extremes that needs to be maintained, because I don't think either end of the emotional spectrum is completely healthy.

Me too. I just feel like I have to do it. It makes playing piano a lot harder though, because I do it a bit when using the pedals.

I always have to have something to chew on, especially in class. Usually it's gum, but if I don't have any I chew on my pens or markers.

I also can't sit still. I was such a nuisance in school because I would always be getting up. I don't get out of my seat so much now but I squirm around a hell of a lot.

I have to wipe down the steering wheel in my car before I drive it, even though I'm the only person who uses it. Likewise for the keys on my piano.

The volume on the TV needs to be set on an even number.

The money in my wallet needs to be in order, smaller bills to larger bills. It helps that each denomination has it's own colour - makes it that much easier to know exactly how much I have without taking it out to count.

If one of my arms or legs is hanging out of the blankets on the bed, I feel very uncomfortable. Same if the sheets or blanket come off - I will actually wake up and fix it.

I have to turn off all electronic devices when I leave a room. That includes lights and ceiling fans.

I always check if the stove and toaster oven are off before I leave the kitchen (even if I just turned them off). I think that goes back to when I was a kid and my mom left the oven on by mistake - there was a cake or something in there and the whole thing caught fire.

Haha, I do the exact same thing! They're all the same color so it doesn't help me count but it does prevent me from giving a cashier a large bill by accident because it was mixed in with a bunch of ones or whatever.

No, the triple dots are an indication of a pause or trailing off... but too long of a pause to be relayed by a comma. Since the periods are not indicating the end of a sentence, the following word isn't capitalized. I guess the only exception to that is if you were actually beginning a new sentence after a trailing off...
Does that answer your question?
:)

I've never heard of anyone getting pick-pocketed in my town. If people want your money, they'll just mug you. Which doesn't happen much either.

Also, the "three dots" are called an ellipsis.

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Well I'll be damned...

Yes, that fully answers my question.
Thank you so much good sir! :D.

Just to give you more questions: Freebase was only describing how it's used in casual, message board style writing. That's not really the grammatically correct way of using it.

I don't think three dots are ever gramatically correct, are they?

When I go to sleep, I still clutch my sheets close to me (a carryover from holding a binkey or stuffed animal is my guess) and I like to have it touching my lips. No idea why.

I get bothered when people slurp up liquids like soup and cereal from a spoon. I can do it quietly, why can't they? Oh, and on the subject of those two, when people drink from the bowl directly when there's not enough left for the spoon. I know it's so that food isn't wasted, but I find it disgusting.

Yes. Like I mentioned above, it's a punctuation mark called an ellipsis. The proper usage is to indicate when something is being left out of a quote. It's also used in the ways that Freebase described when writing dialogue.

You guys have had the same money for like a zillion years :p:

Ellipses are grammatically correct when used properly. I can't think of any examples at the moment, but their use is taught in schools here.

Well, they keep making dumb changes like making the presidents' head bigger and whatnot (insert joke about presidential egos here) but they never seem to get around to making the bills, you know, attractive. And it would be great to have different colors for different denominations like a lot of other countries do.

When I wake up in the morning, as I walk( I accidently typed wank by accident xD ) through each room I turn off all the lights because my eyes are adjusting. When I get into the kitchen and people are eating breakfast I turn off the light and sit down to have breakfast. Lol.