Lilith wrote:Can anyone tell me what this smiley is meant to be? It's really disconcerting me.

Oh, and I'm happy to be here.

HELLO!

Ever seen South Park? It's what the Canadians look like. :P


I've never had a problem with chairs, and I always sit cross-legged (Well, except for the ridiculously tiny ones they use in the high schools over here. Hate those things).

Heyyyy, since when did we get comfy chairs? No one told me! *sulks*

I tend to start off normally, but then usually end up with the chair turned the wrong way round, or one foot on the table and the other on another chair . Once I actually ended up sitting on the table and putting the laptop on the chair. ^_^

I *would* ask for a comfy chair, but seeing as I'm already a footstool, it may not be that necessary...

Epic_Footstool wrote:Once I actually ended up sitting on the table and putting the laptop on the chair. ^_^

I always do that! I went through a phase of sitting on my desk (which I have never used as a desk, though it has been a bookcase and is now a dressing table or something) and putting my feet on my chair with my laptop on my knees. I have a particularly useless stool (not that there's anything wrong with stools, or indeed BEING one) which I always use as a table.

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I really want to be a mouler already... *Casually bites John Mandrake the second.*

Oh my, I forgot to say hello. Consider this wrong righted =)

Hi there. Your signature is awesome, in a mind-messing sorta way. :)

thanks, I stole it from here. It's from the Scott Pilgrim game, apparently.

I REALLY WANT TO SEE THAT FILM. I can already quote some of ex no. 3's lines, as well as listing off the exes in order, making intelligent conversation about why some of the weapons are pixellated, and trying to pretend that my goggles are as good as Ramona's. God, I love her. I want to be her. Or her girlfriend. Would I have to fight off all the exes plus Scott to get her?

*Pre-film excitement over, for now.*

FuzzyLobster wrote:Ever seen South Park? It's what the Canadians look like. :P

You mean you don't look like that in real life!?
Worldview shattered.



I fidget like mad when I'm sat down. Any objects on my desk will be fiddled with at random, and then usually put down in my lap and forgotten about, until I stand up and they land on my feet. This is particularly problematic with items like my penknife.
I usually start seated fairly normally, then it starts to vary. Starts with any objects nearby being used as footrests. Here, it's the assortment of boxes under my desk. At uni, it's the desk drawers. Then I end up sat on my legs or with my legs draped over the arm of the chair, or on the desk. On one occasion I found myself sat with my feet on the wall above my monitor.
It's even worse with a netbook rather than my desktop, and/or a sofa or beanbag or something rather than the chair...

This all leads to frequent incidents of thinking I'm falling off my chair, and occasional incidents of actually falling off it, too. My chair at home is particularly bad because it leans backwards, so I'll hit the balance point mid fidget and think the whole chair's going over.

A friend I visited in America a couple of months ago admitted she'd been admiring the bizarreness of my seating positions (I think I was sat upside down on the sofa at one point...) but didn't want to say anything in case I stopped.

When I'm at my desk, I always either sit cross-legged on my chair, or kneel on the seat and lean over the back. When it comes to fidgeting, I never put things in my lap, because I'm always sat right up against the edge of the desk. My fidgeting usually consists of twirling things around, or slicing/clipping random pieces of paper or waste plastic (my desk is incredibly messy. I never throw anything away) with the assortment of knives and clippers I keep next to me.

Well now I feel rather boring. If on a computer, I just sit with one foot on the floor and the other on chair, using my knee as an armrest. Oh and I drive people nuts if there's other people in the room with me because if there's a huge amount of text from that came from a google search or that I'm reading, I tend to highlight certain chunks that I intend to read.

In class, I sit Indian style on my chair.

rubberchickenben wrote:thanks, I stole it from here. It's from the Scott Pilgrim game, apparently.

DO WANT.

I don't even remember the dinosaur. Oh well, it's awesome.

Wow... who knew there were so many ways to sit? *Snuggles in duvet* this works too.

Lilith wrote:Wow... who knew there were so many ways to sit? *Snuggles in duvet* this works too.

Haha I do that too. If it's during the holidays, a duvet will always end up downstairs at some point, strewn across the sofa in a haphazard manner. My parents get slightly annoyed by that, but I think it's because I bring their duvet downstairs instead of my own one. :D

Mwamba wrote:Well now I feel rather boring. If on a computer, I just sit with one foot on the floor and the other on chair, using my knee as an armrest.

Yes, I sit like that too. Or, both my legs in front of me and using the knee as an armrest. And the other ways I mentioned. It varies but compared to the rest of y'all, it is nothing. Especially when compared to Sent's. I really admire your sitting positions.
BTW, I think it is better sometimes to sit all ways because it keeps your body flexible. I had a friend in yoga class who couldn't sit cross legged on the ground (with one leg above the other: exactly like the pic I put up before). She used to admire the ease with which I used to do it. I told her that it was because I sat like that at home in the chair/sofa sometimes. She said that though she had learnt that sitting position in school (yoga is sometimes taught in some schools), she never sat like that at home once she left school, so she finds it difficult now.

wrote:In class, I sit Indian style on my chair.

Er, what is Indian style?

I think it describes the cross legged style you were just talking about - one leg on top of the other. (Aladdin on his magic carpet, perhaps?)

It's just the basic cross-legged position. I sit like that on chairs often enough (hooray for having short legs). I suppose that's just what Americans call it. I was just trying to find a term that would avoid confusion with sitting like this.

Ah, I see you are referring to the difference between "cross-legged" and "legs crossed".

Lilith wrote:Ah, I see you are referring to the difference between "cross-legged" and "legs crossed".

Ah...I fail at terminology. :ermm:

I'm a big geek. Did you know there's a difference between "handful" and "hand full"?

Never thought about it. But I'd imagine handful means a small quantity of anything versus 'hand full' means literally means the volume of stuff a hand can hold.

And in case the animal game thread hasn't tipped you off yet, everyone here are geeks. ;)