Reply to: OCD - is it made worse by IT work?

[BrilloPad]

(I ignore -2 for now)

Amateur.

[original PM]

When I see number plates, each letter I calculate a Number for (based on the number of straight lines forming the letter)... I add the numbers up...

I add up till I hit a number I can easily square root

Eg. I add until I hit numbers like 25, 49, 81 etc

Then I star breaking down the components

49 -> 7 x 7

Two 7's gives me 7 + 7 = 14

14 gives me 1 and 4

4 can be square rooted to 2 (I ignore -2 for now)

So I'm left with 1 and 2, which in my head feels ok because I can't break it down further

I do this all day! ... this is a tiring habit (!!), I have been recommended breathing exercises to reduce it... I've been doing this since my early teens!!

hmm you are a bit nuts...

you need to tell yourself that as there are no benefits... do not do it

[aussielong]

What square rooting algorithm do you use?

When I see number plates, each letter I calculate a Number for (based on the number of straight lines forming the letter)... I add the numbers up...

I add up till I hit a number I can easily square root

Eg. I add until I hit numbers like 25, 49, 81 etc

Then I star breaking down the components

49 -> 7 x 7

Two 7's gives me 7 + 7 = 14

14 gives me 1 and 4

4 can be square rooted to 2 (I ignore -2 for now)

So I'm left with 1 and 2, which in my head feels ok because I can't break it down further

I do this all day! ... this is a tiring habit (!!), I have been recommended breathing exercises to reduce it... I've been doing this since my early teens!!

[MyUserName]

Thanks

Who did you hire in?

Your wife insisted I handled it all in house ... although for a while we did end up in the garden.

[vetran]

Dug all my old listings of computer simulations of power stations and process plant out of the attic the other day but couldn't bring myself to chuck them. With a bit of adaptation I reckon I could do a simulation of CUK, it will be so accurate it will predict when SAS is going to post and what he will say.

PS Looked it up on Wikipedia and saw that "Symptoms of the disorder include excessive washing". I'm ok then!

yep rinse & repeat.

[Doggy Styles]

PS Looked it up on Wikipedia and saw that "Symptoms of the disorder include excessive wanking". I'm ok then!

Oh, I didn't realise that.

[xoggoth]

Dug all my old listings of computer simulations of power stations and process plant out of the attic the other day but couldn't bring myself to chuck them. With a bit of adaptation I reckon I could do a simulation of CUK, it will be so accurate it will predict when SAS is going to post and what he will say.

PS Looked it up on Wikipedia and saw that "Symptoms of the disorder include excessive washing". I'm ok then!

[EternalOptimist]

I am impressed you found a car with MDCCCV on the number plate

Less of the sauce you

[Doggy Styles]

I am impressed you found a car with MDCCCV on the number plate

That's Spartacus's car!

[Ketchup]

I like to convert number plates into Roman numerals then add them up or make dates out of them, then attach significant historical events to them.

So I start to talk to the missus about the battle of austerlitz and she says, 'where did THAT come from ??'

its hard to explain that its because you are bonkers

I am impressed you found a car with MDCCCV on the number plate

[vetran]

Strange some of the most social people I know (mainly female) are diagnosed OCD suffers, they are not in IT.

Some others I suspect of harbouring OCD tendencies are also high achievers socially, maybe (like Spacecadet's missus wishes he would) - they try just that little bit harder to be liked.

I'm pretty geeky but I have never been accused of suffering from OCD.

[TestMangler]

I've got OCD, but also have ADHD, so I can't remember what i'm obsessed about

[Durbs]

Your Fleshlight called.

FTFY

[Spacecadet]

For the multiple Orgasm algorithm he might need to hire in some contractors ... possibly ones with 'sub' clauses.

Thanks

Who did you hire in?

[MyUserName]

Would that be Orgasm2.0?

For the multiple Orgasm algorithm he might need to hire in some contractors ... possibly ones with 'sub' clauses.