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Welu:

--- Quote from: Redball on 08 Mar 2013, 16:32 ---Appearance? Accent? Mannerisms?

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I don't think I particularly look like I'm from anywhere. I guess pale white skin and light coloured eyes suggest European though? Accent seems to be the reason. I also tend to switch between pronunciations. "Choob" versus "toob" for "tube" example.

MisterHeal:
People who don't know me seem to misunderstand my humour, which is larger sarcastic and either self-deprecating or about a friend. The self-deprecating part seems too lead people into believing I'm like depressed or have low self-esteem or something? Most people in University take themselves too seriously anyways! (More so, Engineers)

Asterus:
For some reason, many people seem to assume that I'm "smart" and usually something of a stoic. Admittedly, I might have seemed smart up to high school because of my preference to read and look up information I came across, but I have no exceptional affinity for retaining information. And I prefer to listen to a conversation rather than participate, and consider information before reacting rather than react the way people think I should react.
Also, people assume I'm much younger than I really am. It's probably due to my slight build and inability to grow facial hair. When I was 17 and worked for Meijers, my (now ex-)girlfriend's coworkers thought it was odd that she was dating someone "3+" years younger than her, and someone asked me what the minimum age to work there was. More recently, a coworker finally got a clue when he met my "older" brother (Or as I call it, my little "big" brother)
And somehow, I always get the "Ninja" label applied to me. Something about the way I move and how I hate making excessive noise. And possibly a race card.

Papersatan:
That I am trying to lose weight or am sympathetic to their struggle to do so.

I just wrote a whole rant about it on Tumblr.

I don't know when weight loss became so ingrained that it was a polite topic of conversation like the weather or the local sports team.  It is disgusting that I am expected to hate myself, and to be prepared to bond over that hatred with other people, particularly women.  I don't want to hear you tell me you "have been so good" as though eating was a sin and restraint from french fries makes you a good person.  I don't want to hear about bathing suits, or dresses, or small successes ("I am down 5 pounds!").  I am no longer keeping my mouth shut when people whine that they are getting fat.  So what. I *am* fat.  What about it?


Related:
That I am unhappy with my body and desperate to hear it praised (see every "but, I love big girls!" pick up line).

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: MisterHeal on 13 Mar 2013, 17:30 ---Most people in University take themselves too seriously anyways! (More so, Engineers)
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I know what you mean - but it wasn't like that when I studied engineering myself.

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