Bizarre habitsSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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You'd be stuffedif you were Chinese though.
(Or is that just one of those things you're told in primary school which is absolute nonsense but you believe it for 30 years anyway?)
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:17,
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Kinda correctHistorically, Chinese orthography starts at the top right then vertically down, then left one column, repeat.
More recently (1950s) China standardised on left to right, horizontally. By the 90s, most Chinese-style-writing nations have followed suit, except Taiwan.
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Fronds are waving gently on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:21,
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althoughArabic and Hebrew still do it wrong.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 13:46,
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