For a while I had SPUDS FOR THE SPUD GOD! stuck in my head.
So Paula Poundstone has recurring character on her podcast, a woman whose husband died of food poisoning after eating tainted cheese: “It was the Gouda that got 'im.”
And now, every damn time I’m in the dairy aisle at the grocery store… 🙄
CARROTS FOR THE CARROT THRONE!
Ok, I know this is crazy, but I’ve had one phrase go round in my head for at least the last 15 years:
No thanks, I really would not like that please, thank you very much.
When I was a child, some intrusive thoughts would pop into my head that bad things would happen in random situations, unless I did certain things. E.g., if I didn’t breath in at least 15 times before the end of a song, or take an even number of steps before someone said something, then I would suddenly die.
My brain developed the lore that, when these thoughts popped into my head, they would be binding unless I repeated the above phrase in my mind over and over again. I think it started off as “no thanks”, and gradually got expanded to its current crazy form.
Although I don’t believe that anymore, the phrase is firmly implanted in my mind and pops up several times a day. It’s probably one of the few things I’ve remembered verbatim for so long, and it’s completely useless :D
Oh, my brain had things like this. I also had (have) minor ticks and I think this may go hand in hand woth that.
Yes! I never really talked with anybody about that sort of stuff happening in my head when I was younger. I’d put my toothbrush back in the cup and suddenly my brain would be like “that didn’t land right, go back and fix it” and until I went back and fixed it, I’d believe something bad would happen.
I have ticks when I’m stressed, too! But it’s more about tensing certain muscles until it “feels right”…
“that didn’t land right, go back and fix it”
Yes, I engaged in this a bit when I was pre-teen, but fortunately the thoughts disappeared once I started ignoring them. My brother has a really extreme, debillitating version of this where he gets stuck on almost anything and it ends up taking him 5x as long as a normal person.
- Keeps tightening his seatbelt in the car
- Closes the door several times
- Tries to place food perfectly in his mouth to eat it
- Placing pencils/cutlery down just right (the noise of this gets really annnoying)
- Repeats sitting down to land just right
- After brushing teeth, needs to drink from the tap in just the right way, tap ends up running for 5 minutes
- Used to have auditory ticks that satisfy this sensation (I used to have these too so I know what it feels like)
Poor guy doesn’t have the mental strength or mindfulness to push back against it. My country is backwards on mental health and doctors haven’t been able to tell us what it is but we suspect it’s some form of OCD. I on the other hand seem(?) to be lightly AuDHD.
I need to play “shave and a haircut” with my toothbrush (“two bits” is the toothbrush landing in the container and bouncing once) or I don’t feel safe.
If I don’t sip from my water bottle - thirsty or not - before leaving my car and entering a store, something is bound to go wrong.
For the last couple of months I’ve had ‘wife-eroni and cheese’ in my head
I’m going to use that on my husband and it’s going to work, so at least it’s done some good?
Yes. If you like to say them out loud too, people in the neurodivergent community tend to call those vocal stims.
Mine are mostly memes, like the kid who said “apparently, I’ve never been on live tv before” during a news interview at some sort of fair. I fucking love saying “apparently” with the same infection lol
Hey I do that too. For me it’s “I don’t like food anymore!”, originally from Homestar Runner.
Also old memes like imma firin mah lazer and variants like I’m a farmer in Malaysia
Doesn’t come up that often, but if someone is sitting on a bucket… “Just sit right down on the bucket!!!”
Pretty sure H*R has irrevocably altered the vocabulary of millions of people. I’ll say “” there’s two of them” whenever there are unexpectedly two of something. I sometimes say “hellot” or “haldo” instead of hello to people I know. I could go on.
Miss the wiki too.
Yes. Mine are mostly ones that came from my own head. It may be an autism or OCD trait. Or possibly ADHD? Or maybe it’s just a normal human thing.
My brain sometimes keeps internally repeating the last thing I said, or part of it, looped like a sample in a song. Nothing too extreme, but it’s there.
Definitely ADHD. (Can personally confirm.) It’s also common with my autistic friends. I don’t have an OCD contact to ask, but from what I’ve learned about the spectrum I would be surprised if they don’t.
His name was Robert Paulson.
How’s that working out for you?
Every time I hear anything out of some of our current leaders’ mouths, I hear an old Jerky Boys clip in my head:
“HE’S LYING TO YOU, FUCKING GUY!”
From the infamous “your daughter kicked my dog” prank call.
Yep. These are scripts. I have…a few that bop around in my head.
“Be kind, rewind”
And “It’s time to start asking yourself the big questions (insert my current stupid dilemma)”
And a couple based on Orc Peon dialog from WoW which I am too embarrassed to even type but I never say any of these in front of others anyway.
This is fine.
Me not that kind of orc!
All the time
- This aggression will not stand
- In the parlance of our times
- They’re gonna kill that poor woman
- etc
Not necessarily phrases, but some words or actions. I personally find it irritating AF. Like every time I do (action), my brain reminds me to do (action) a certain way even though I know how to do it.
“PUGS?! That’s the dream, man!”
Yeah… I do, that one’s been there for a bit xD
No, I’ve actually never had phrases get stuck in my head. Nowhere near the way songs do at least.
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST.
Way she goes
