The ways you creep people out [Archive] - The Warring States of NPF

Bells

06-29-2010, 09:47 PM

So... what are the little things you do that seems to creep people out or set them unease?

I type without looking. Like, i'm typing, and people start talking to me and i sometimes look at them, talk to them without having to stop typing (and actually with very very few mistakes).

It freaks people out.

bluestarultor

06-29-2010, 09:58 PM

My friend's girlfriend complained that I "hovered" when I tagged along for movie nights with their friend group. What she actually meant was that I didn't sit down. Part of it was because I wasn't really comfortable hanging out with a bunch of people I really didn't know (and ended up not really liking after a few sessions), and another part of it was a lack of anywhere comfortable TO sit (the place was packed), but most of it was because I tend to walk a lot and standing doesn't bother me.

Apparently, me standing off to the side bothered her more than any of the horror movies. It usually resulted in her telling me to sit down and me ending up sore from sitting on hardwood.

Azisien

06-29-2010, 10:37 PM

Sometimes I blow a kiss to people when they are saying bye and walk away.

Or sometimes if someone departs with a "See you!" I'll reply with a murderous, deadpan "Soon."

Amake

06-30-2010, 01:17 AM

I say way too personal and inappropriate things. You've probably noticed if you've seen me post. :I

Mike McC

06-30-2010, 01:33 AM

Link to Pixiv.

Si Civa

06-30-2010, 05:53 AM

Some claimed that I looked like serial killer in class photo so.. ..and it happened in elementary school.. Kids are assholes.

It might something to do with the fact that I may make unintented Kubrick stare.

Osterbaum

06-30-2010, 06:47 AM

I don't think I creep people out as much as I freak people out. Mainly with quoting (funny) videos I've seen or doing/saying otherwise random shit.

EVILNess

06-30-2010, 06:55 AM

Staring hard and hardly blinking will unnerve any stranger you see. There are no exceptions.

katiuska

06-30-2010, 07:46 AM

I have a habit of appearing out of / vanishing into the ether without much notice. It kind of weirds people out to look up and realize that I'm suddenly on the other side of the room.

BloodyMage

06-30-2010, 07:50 AM

I got rep in high school as a nazi sympathiser, which I don't really remember why, but it was hilarious when a guy joined our school for the last couple of years and actually thought I was a nazi sympathiser because of all the jokes. He freaked out and we had to tell him to his face that it was a joke.

Now I just creep my friends out by knowing far too much about Dragonball Z than what's good for casual conversation.

Sithdarth

06-30-2010, 08:10 AM

Apparently I scowl when I start thinking really hard and I know I also have a habit of somehow focusing on a point in empty space. The combination apparently makes it look like I'm about to murder someone. It probably doesn't help that I am I giant.

Then there is my Ninja like stealth. You'd think at 6ft 6 my shadow alone would warn people of my approach. Yet of walked up to and in some cases followed people for minutes without them noticing completely unintentionally. For some reason people don't seem to appreciate a giant wall of human suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

There was this one time in High School where I was totally creeped out and then turned the tables. I was kind of half asleep in french class leaning my chair back against that wall and suddenly I just get the feeling someone is standing over me. In fact I get a very specific feeling about exactly who it is and it happens to be a girl that I don't particular like and that doesn't particularly like me. So with out opening my eyes I call her by name and tell her to go away and leave me alone. She replied with some insult I can't remember told the teacher I was sleeping and completely left me alone after that for the rest of High school. I guess I had creeped out so much that she thought I had supernatural powers and was going to steal her soul or something. I'm pretty sure it was just some totally awesome deductive reasoning on my part but I could see how that could totally weird someone out.

Green Spanner

06-30-2010, 08:50 AM

I loom, and seemingly have the ability to arrive and leave without anybody noticing.

Also, I think my knowledge of irrelevant things sometimes creeps some people out occasionally (though it may just as likely be shock that I know the kind of shit I do).

Jagos

06-30-2010, 10:22 AM

Damn, I thought I couldn't be creeped out. Then I saw Seil's new thread...

Add a little bit of Blues' standing around, Green's discussion of small things, and an interest in academia, and you have me in a nutshell. I am a GEEK! Makes it hard on the family sometimes when their interest is more social than mine.

I mean seriously, I read the DMCA (and all legalese involved) in a matter of three hours. They got scared I was turning hermit.

Funka Genocide

06-30-2010, 11:03 AM

I don't think I creep people out. Sometimes I say something way too poetically poignant and everyone seems a little awkward, but then I go back to talking like a surfer dude and its all cool.

A Zarkin' Frood

06-30-2010, 11:41 AM

Apparently I never smile. EVER!

The sad truth is... people only see my tears, but when I smile they look away.

I hope no one takes this too seriously. Though, I did manage to creep people out that way.

P-Sleazy

06-30-2010, 08:54 PM

I have this knack for remembering people's schedules, so I've easily learned where to find people at certain times and where they are going/comming from at said times and whenever someone says anything about "hey, where [insert name here]?" I immediately reply with thier exact location and expected time of arrival. Its especially creepy when I'm not the one you expect to know the answer.

Toastburner B

06-30-2010, 09:29 PM

Then there is my Ninja like stealth. You'd think at 6ft 6 my shadow alone would warn people of my approach. Yet of walked up to and in some cases followed people for minutes without them noticing completely unintentionally. For some reason people don't seem to appreciate a giant wall of human suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

I have come across much the same thing. Being a person of rather sizable stature myself (6ft 9in), I apparently have the uncanny ability to just completely fade into the background.

Seriously, when I'm at work, customers will walk past my register, I will say "hi" to them, and they will look around until their gaze settles on me and they say "Oh, I didn't see you there." And just the look of confusion on their face as they try to think about how they could of missed me is amusing.

So, yeah, apparently tall guys are naturally invisible.

Kyanbu The Legend

06-30-2010, 09:30 PM

How I suppress my anger. So things that should annoy a person don't so much as effect me. But that leads to me lashing out at anything (even for no reason what so ever) should I fail to vent my anger in time. (like what happened on this forum earlier today in the wonder woman gets a costume change thread.)

And then there was that time I hissed in Health class back in my 2nd year of High School. Lucky for me, no one heard it. Or so I believe no one heard it.

Hanuman

07-01-2010, 05:04 AM

I make people highly uncomfortable, but only if they are afraid of themselves or being found out about something.
It's not really an active thing, it's natural.

CABAL49

07-01-2010, 10:50 AM

My mind zones out sometimes. So depending on what I am going, you could have me unblinkingly stare at you for a few minutes.

Premmy

07-01-2010, 12:24 PM

I'm very touchy-feely, I have to make contact with people, partly from my need to do SOMETHING with my hands, If I can get away with leaning on people, I WILL.

Personal Space is something I have that extends outwards into the universe is what I'm saying

I also move around quietly, and this, combined with my need to have most things in my life flow organiclly means I often Swirl around a little too quickly and quietly while moving.

Brainmeats

07-01-2010, 02:33 PM

I have deja vu... a lot... and can tell people what's about to happen.

not quite sure how it works but it's pretty cool.

Aldurin

07-01-2010, 04:11 PM

I have taken karate for 7 years and yet people don't see me as knowing how to punch properly. This makes it especially creepy for people when I stand my ground against bullies and assholes when it looks like I have every reason to run away if not surrender. And it has the added effect of showing how wimpy the other person is.

Also, prolonged exposure to my presence will scare off some people. My only guess is that my mental costume to make me appear sane will leak some of my insanity over time.

And do you guys know about those patterns that become 3D images when you go crosseyed? I can instantly shift my focus to make it work (in my physics class in high school, my teacher brought in two books with those patterns and I was the only one that could do it without instruction and hard effort. Everybody else regarded me as a freak for the rest of the class.

I should totally build on that and say that with years of practice that I can see into people's souls by adjusting my vision. I'd just have to go up to a guy, make a weird look on my face and say "You have a pornagraphy problem." Then I would go on. If the person had a criminal record I saw beforehand I would use the same technique. It would be awesome.

phil_

07-01-2010, 09:57 PM

I should totally build on that and say that with years of practice that I can see into people's souls by adjusting my vision. I'd just have to go up to a guy, make a weird look on my face and say "You have a pornagraphy problem." Then I would go on. If the person had a criminal record I saw beforehand I would use the same technique. It would be awesome.I'm pretty sure saying "You have a pornography pornagraphy problem" out of the blue to strangers would do a good job creeping them out, regardless of whether or not you could see into their soul.

Art of Hilt

07-01-2010, 10:45 PM

I'm very touchy-feely, I have to make contact with people, partly from my need to do SOMETHING with my hands, If I can get away with leaning on people, I WILL.

Personal Space is something I have that extends outwards into the universe is what I'm saying

Oh man you are basically my archenemy since I creep people out for the exact opposite reason.
I am so reserved. I keep my hands to my self for as long as possible, and I lean away from people as much as possible, which means when I am standing in between two guys then I am standing as straight as John Wayne on a horse voting for Ronald Reagan.

Premmy

07-01-2010, 10:58 PM

I don't lean on STRANGERS, but if I've seen you more than once, I gotta touch you.

Sithdarth

07-01-2010, 11:25 PM

I don't lean on STRANGERS, but if I've seen you more than once, I gotta touch you.

Note to self stay away from Prem or at least only meet him once. Nothing against you but unexpected body contact is likely to end in pain at this point. I used to have control of my reactions but after nine years of training something broke. I didn't realize it until I tried to dodge and counter strike when a fly came out of nowhere flying straight for my face. Luckily I'm so creepy and invisible no one tries to touch me. I'm not really sure I could react fast enough consciously to stop myself. Sometimes it's nice like when I knock over a glass and catch it before it really moves but I just know one of these days someone is going to tap on my shoulder and I'm going to break their finger or something.

Premmy

07-01-2010, 11:31 PM

I think the internet counts as once, sorry, gotsta rub yas.

Sithdarth

07-01-2010, 11:45 PM

If we ever meet I'll try to make sure it is someplace with soft carpeting or like a glass partition so we can stand on opposite sides of the glass. We can even pretend one of us is in prison and really really creep other people out. It'll be fun.

Nikose Tyris

07-01-2010, 11:55 PM

My friends hate how whenever we meet a new girl, somehow I end up flirting with her and she ends up at my place. :/ We aren't sure how this began but it's gotten to the point where I'm not allowed to meet 'the new girl' if someone has a crush.

What's weird is I don't do this on purpose and usually put them on the couch due to my total disinterest in them. :/ I'm apparently just a huge slutbag.

Edit: I've been... ENCOURAGED to add that Marius thinks I'm a sex addict while I don't believe they exist.

Rejected Again

07-02-2010, 01:12 AM

Pip Boy

07-02-2010, 01:46 AM

I quote Lovecraft.

Hanuman

07-02-2010, 01:54 AM

This is a good thread to realize, analyze and refine our social dysfunctions.
Seriously, why would we want a -1 to our charisma? This is gold.

The Sevenshot Kid

07-02-2010, 01:57 AM

I talk in a rambling sort of fashion because I try and latch onto every single idea that interests me. Also, I have no sense of personal space with my friends who are girls except when it comes to the ones I have a sort of interest in, in which case I make contact with them at about the same frequency that the Pope chokes the smurf.

Bells

07-02-2010, 02:01 AM

Kyanbu The Legend

07-02-2010, 02:12 AM

Joey's smile frightens me. O_O

I've come to the conclusion that most of you scare the ever loving crap out of me. Especially you Sith.

Aldurin

07-02-2010, 11:18 AM

This is a good thread to realize, analyze and refine our social dysfunctions.
Seriously, why would we want a -1 to our charisma? This is gold.

We can have a high charisma stat and never have to show it to be in effect. So we can be crazy and have good combat bonuses.

Magic_Marker

07-02-2010, 01:08 PM

Ahem. (http://www.sexaa.org/)

That site is like the opposite of what most of us need.

Yay for projection!

Nikose Tyris

07-02-2010, 01:10 PM

No, I know that many people think it is a real thing. I'm saying that I don't think it is, regardless of websites set up to 'help' addicts.

Hey, what if I don't want to quit cold turkey, do I get weened off with a hooker once a week?

Sithdarth

07-02-2010, 01:20 PM

I've come to the conclusion that most of you scare the ever loving crap out of me. Especially you Sith.

I'm not sure if that sucks or if it is totally awesome. Mostly because I have no idea what I did. I'm also not sure if you mean scared like you'd be scared of a really creepy dirty homeless guy that might give you TB or scared like you'd be of a Mexican drug lord that is after you for stealing a 100 Kilos of cocaine.

Magic_Marker

07-02-2010, 01:21 PM

Give the cocaine to the homeless guy, kill two birds with one stone.

Hanuman

07-02-2010, 04:17 PM

We can have a high charisma stat and never have to show it to be in effect.
Not showing your charisma stat would be part of your charisma stat.
Bluff vs. Sense Motive [Analyze Charisma]

Also, in life you can work on str, dex, con, int, wis and cha all at once, people are just lazy.

TheBoltman

07-03-2010, 10:37 AM

I only creep people out when the conversation has too long a pause. I then say things that can be considered too much information, rude, or not appropriate to the conversation. One time a friend and I were talking, the conversation died, and my phobia of awkward silences cause me to say to her, "You're starting to get a belly there."

Also, I ramble about things no one cares about.

Ecks

07-03-2010, 11:10 AM

I creep people out because I can't hide my powerlevels. No seriously, people don't even need a scouter to tell that I'm a huge dork. I constantly make obscure geek culture references (Star Trek, Star Wars, random games and/or movies, etc.) that NO ONE UNDERSTANDS. Hell is other people.

Token

07-03-2010, 11:35 AM

I'm essentially a (much) nerdier, (half) British Asshat. Also, I'm quiet as fuck when I move.

Bobbey

07-03-2010, 10:36 PM

I do this thing where I can whistle in between my teeth with my mouth half-open. The effect given off feels like someone is whistling, but far away. And since my lips aren't positioned as if I was actually whistling, people often look around and try to find the source of the whistling. The problem is I do this often and without noticing sometimes, so at some point I was whistling during a French class and my teacher just had this confused glare trying to spot the student doing it, or looking out the corridor thinking it was coming from outside the class.

Magic_Marker

07-03-2010, 10:50 PM

I keep reading the topic as "the best ways to creep people out"

Hanuman

07-03-2010, 10:57 PM

Xellos

07-23-2010, 10:55 PM

I don't even know. I just do. When I was in highschool, I would walk into a room and all they girls would whisper to each other "Isn't she creepy looking?"

Seriously, I don't get it. It must be some way I hold myself, or some quirk that is invisible to me. Either that, or they just thought that tall women look weird.

Magic_Marker

07-24-2010, 09:37 AM

Tall...Creepy...

Hmmmm. Do you carry a scythe? Because that might be it.

Overcast

07-25-2010, 12:48 AM

I talk about typical atrocious behavior with an awkward amount of enthusiasm. Like cannibalism. I have an unusually positive stance on that one. When I am enthused about a topic the way I rant has been explicable compared to the mad ravings of an evil scientist, the only things missing being the thunderclaps as my maniacal laughter explodes from my chest. My laugh is too loud, because I inherited my father's laugh which basically blows out the rest of the room, but his sounds hearty. Mine sounds crazy. Both are unreasonably easy to tickle though so while he gets shared laughs I get stares.

In other words it is because I seem like I am only three steps away from getting my PhD in Evil Doctor school.

Cati

07-29-2010, 10:03 AM

Bells

07-29-2010, 10:12 AM

i got a new one... i recently bought "The Pluto Files" that book by Dr Neil degrasse tyson about the backlash of when Pluto was demoted as a planet. The book is in English (it doesn't exist in Portuguese...) and when i tell people what is it about i might as well be talking Moon Language....

Yrcrazypa

07-29-2010, 10:51 AM

I tend to laugh when I'm upset, angry, or really stressed. Often times it turns into uncontrollable hysterical laughter, and people tend to be a little... unsettled by it, haha, especially if they know that something should be upsetting me and they don't know about my laughing fits.

I do this too, with uncontrollable smiling. Though people don't tend to realize that I'm not smiling because I'm happy. Mechanics, aircraft ones or no, tend to not be the brightest of individuals, myself included.

Nique

07-31-2010, 12:42 AM

I don't think I'm creepy. In fact I've been told that I engender trust in a lot of people. But when I was going after girls (before I was married) I would inevitably choose ones that were... not shy, but they reacted very nervously to anything that they considered 'undue' attention and pretty much killed any chance of a relationship right there becuase I didn't know how to stop being so gregarious (instead of 'aloof', I guess). The one girl I dated who did responded to that ended being a waste of my time.

As a matter of fact my wife though I was creepy when we first met, and all I had done was engage her in conversation. Now we are married. Go figure.

Mondt

07-31-2010, 02:13 PM

I make it a point to compliment people about their looks in a way that could potentially be misunderstood as creeping but mostly they just look nice and I wanted to tell them.

Edit: What the hell my post jumped to be fore Pyros' and says it was posted at 2:13?

Its 6:16!

Double Edit: Oh, we know.

PyrosNine

07-31-2010, 03:41 PM

I don't make virtually any sound when I walk unless I'm really trying to be noisy, so naturally I tend to creep people out when they didn't see me walk in.

Once I got elbowed in the face on accident because I got behind a girl to be in line for a library vending machine, and when she got two for one on Reese's Cups, I laughed at how awesome that was, and she suddenly jumped and turned around and I got a face full of elbow.

She apologized and said I'd totally freaked her out because she didn't y'know, hear me until then, and I just apologized for getting too close.

But yeah. I don't wear big clompy shoes or boots, or squeaky sneakers, and I'm light on my feet, so any time I'm too absorbed to say "hi!" to people when I enter a room, someone ends up jumping when they turn around and I'm there.

It's probably because my mom was creepy in another way, in that her hearing is perfect, as not only can I never sneak up on her, but almost any thing I did as a child was too loud. So, now I'm too quiet for normal people.