Bad habits that don't become regular habits
 

Ahh, yes..."Bad habits"...A pretty generic word, which could mean anything from biting your nails to saying "lolz PWNT!" in real life conversations unintentionally...Some people say that if you continue whatever "bad habits" you may have, they'll become part of a regular routine where you'll eventually do them more often, and usually not at free will; It's just so natural for you to do so anyway...But does anyone ever obtain a "bad habit" that never makes it as a common practice anyway?

This thought occured with me when my english teacher was going over the book "The Catcher in the Rye" and talked about the obsessive profanity used throughout the book...Somewhere down the line in the discussion, she said something like (paraphrased) "Profanity is a language that shouldn't be used casually, because it makes yourself look unintelligent to the extent that you can't use more formal adjectives from your knowledge"...

Granted, I do cuss alot casually around my friends, and when I cuss it's like a motherfucking sailor, but I havn't really seen an instance where a profane word has slipped into my language during formal discussions with a person like an older adult, now that I think about it...I do understand how cuss words could accidentally slip like that with some people, and it can be shunned apon by others at all in a formal work enviroment, but even with the large amount of cursing I do (Pretty much the only places I don't cuss are at school in the presence of a teacher and other family members with the exception of my dad and cousins), it seems as if I do the opposite and unintentionally avoid it during a proper discussion, even with the friends I "Fuck you, bitch" after school everyday...Subconscience restraint, I suppose, and just general curtisy, but meh...

I blame the school for doing what the opposite of what the teachers say; Because of that book, I've used "goddamn" more often than I ever did before buying that cursed Steinbeck-written work of American literature for the summer reading project... :rolleyes:

People tell me that I lick my lips a lot... cause they're always so fucking dry :(

I chew the skin off them too :D

I do that too.:D

ditto

I bite my nails.

I bite the skin around my nails. Sometimes they even bleed a little. That drives my girlfriend nuts :D

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Re: Bad habits that don't become regular habits
 

I will have to say I am guilty of this...although I have
learned to not do it as much.

It is used as more of an exclamation than anything else..
my new favorite, WTF???

But your teacher is wrong, I have plenty of words to pull from my vocabulary, I CHOOSE to use these.

The funny thing is, when I am angry or upset, and in a heated confrontation, I will not use one single cuss word.
I can put someone in their place and state my case quite clearly without them.

Same here. Except for the girlfriend bit.

I also have a habit of staring into space and ignoring people.

yeah but then you dont get to chew your lips off - where's the fun in that?

Might be fun, but what lady wants to kiss gums and teeth?

When you're really old, it'll be only lips and gum.

my lips are addicted to chapstick

:( I too should join Chapstick Anonymous.

http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/home.html

isnt regular habit redundant? i mean.. if its a habit, doesnt that already mean you do it regularly.. so if it hasnt become a 'regular' habit.. its not yet a habit at all?