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Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: 28 October, 2020

GeorgeTakei.com in the United States is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through the website owned and controlled by us, or operated by us or on our behalf, from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Site").

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The “LAST UPDATED" legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual:

  • Name
  • Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
  • Telephone number
  • Email address
  • Credit and debit card number
  • Profile picture
  • Social media account ID
  • Financial information required to invoice or pay you


    • Collection of Personal Information

    We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

  • Through the Site
    • We collect Personal Information through the Site, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter or make a purchase.
  • From Other Sources
    • We receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as publicly available databases;
    • joint marketing partners, when they share the information with us

    • If you connect your social media account to your Site account, you will share certain Personal Information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that may be or you make accessible to us when you connect your social media account to your Site account.

    We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the Site to you. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Site. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Site, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

    Use of Personal Information

    We and our service providers use Personal Information for legitimate business purposes, including:

  • Providing the functionality of the Site and fulfilling your requests.
    • To provide the Site's functionality to you.
    • To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
    • To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
    • To allow you to send messages to a friend through the Site. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend's name and email address.

    • We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or to comply with a legal obligation.

  • Providing you with our newsletter and/or other marketing materials and facilitating social sharing.
    • To send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
    • To facilitate social sharing functionality that you choose to use.

    • We engage in these activities with your consent, to the extent consent is required by applicable law.

    Analysis of Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized services.

  • To personalize your experience on the Site by presenting content, products, and offers tailored to you.

    • We provide personalized services either with your consent or because we have a legitimate interest.

  • Allowing you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other promotions.
    • We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion.
    • Some of these promotions have additional rules, which could contain information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Information.

    • We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.

  • Aggregating and/or anonymizing Personal Information.
    • We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.
  • Accomplishing our business purposes.
    • For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Site.
    • For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements.
    • For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyber attacks or attempts to commit identity theft.
    • For developing new products and services.
    • For enhancing, improving, or modifying the Site and our services.
    • For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Site are of most interest to users.
    • For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.
    • For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Site are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users' interests.

    • We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or because we have a legitimate interest.

    Disclosure of Personal Information

    We disclose Personal Information:

  • To our third party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us.
    • These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
  • To third-party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions.
  • By using the Site, you may elect to disclose Personal Information:
    • On message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and content. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
    • To identify you to anyone to whom you send a message via the Site.
    • Through your social sharing activity. When you connect your Site account with your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider's privacy policy.
      • Other Uses and DisclosuresWe also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:
    • To comply with applicable law.
    • This can include laws outside your country of residence.
  • To respond to requests from public and government authorities.
    • These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
  • To cooperate with law enforcement.
  • For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders.
  • For other legal reasons.
    • To enforce our terms and conditions; and
    • To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
  • In connection with a sale or business transaction.
    • We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties may include, for example, an acquiring entity and its advisors.

    • OTHER INFORMATION

    “Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual:

  • Browser information
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  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies
  • Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity
  • Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity

    • If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Privacy Policy.

    Collection of Other Information

    We and our service providers collect Other Information in a variety of ways:

  • Through your browser or device:
    • Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language and Internet browser type you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Site functions properly.
  • IP Address:
    • Your “IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address can be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating Site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Site.
  • Using cookies:
      Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Site, as well as for online tracking purposes. We also gather statistical information about the usage of the Site in order to continually improve the design and functionality, understand how the Site is used and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the Site. Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Site. We also use cookies in online advertising to track responses to our advertisements and we use cookies or other files to track your use of other websites.
      If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer here and here. However, if you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer and you may need to log in every time you visit the Site. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
  • “Do Not Track" signals:
    • The Site will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy, whether or not a “Do Not Track" signal or similar mechanism is received from your browser.
  • Using pixel tags and other similar technologies:
    • Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) are used in connection with some Site pages and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and email recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Site usage and response rates.
  • Physical Location:
    • We collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals. We use your device's physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content. We also share your device's physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our service providers and/or marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your device's location, but if you choose to deny such uses and/or sharing, we, our service providers and/or our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.
  • From you:
    • Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide this information.

    • Uses and Disclosures of Other Information

    We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

    THIRD PARTY SITES OR SERVICES

    This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

    THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS

    We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access or use the Site.

    When you use our website, we share information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our partner/service provider, LiveRamp Inc. LiveRamp returns an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online and cross-channel advertising and it may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. To opt out of this use, please click here (https://optout.liveramp.com/opt_out).

    You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of the Site and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). They also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop. If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit here and here.

    SECURITY

    We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please also be aware that we use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that may be non-negotiable; these service providers have informed us or the general public that they apply security measures they consider adequate for the protection of information within their system, or they have a general reputation for applying such measures. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us" section below.

    CHOICES AND ACCESS

    Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information

  • We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:Receiving marketing-related emails from us: If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by clicking on the unsubscribe links provided in emails.
  • Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with our affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by turning off this feature in any services we provide you.
  • Our sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by turning off this feature in any services we provide you.

    • We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that, if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt-out.

    How you can access or change or delete your Personal Information

    If you would like to request to review correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete Personal Information that you have previously provided to us, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us by writing to us here or to Personal Information Request, GeorgeTakei.com, 1001 6th Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY, 10018. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

    In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

    Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).

    RETENTION PERIOD

    We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.

    The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Site to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Site);
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

    • USE OF SITE BY MINORS

    The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13.

    JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

    Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Site you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.

    If you are located in the European Economic Area (comprised of the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, together “EEA"): Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission to protect your Personal Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the “Contacting Us" section below.

    SENSITIVE INFORMATION

    We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (for example, social security numbers, credit card information, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Site or otherwise to us.

    THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE

    We will use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Site. If you wish to make a payment through the Site, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party's privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party's collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.

    CONTACTING US

    GeorgeTakei.com is located at 223 W 38th Street, Unit 114, New York, NY 10018, is the company responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email here, or please write to the following address

    GeorgeTakei.com

    223 W 38th Street
    Unit 114


    New York, NY 10018

    Please note that email communications are not always secure; so please do not include credit card information or sensitive information in your emails to us.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE EEA

    If you are located in the EEA, you also may:

    Contact us here with any questions about this Privacy Policy.

    Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs.

    People Reveal Which Non-Horror Movies Absolutely Traumatized Them As A Kid

    Reddit user alina_love_ asked: 'What's a non horror movie that traumatized you as a kid?'

    An audience watching a movie in a movie theatre
    Photo by Krists Luhaers on Unsplash

    No matter how long ago we saw it, there are some scenes or images from movies that still send shivers down our spine or keep us awake at night to this very day.

    Pennywise appearing in the sewer in It, Janet Leigh surprised in the shower in Psycho, Freddy Kreuger's tongue popping out of the telephone in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

    Of course, some of the scariest, most disturbing, or most emotionally traumatizing scenes from films might have been featured in films outside of the horror genre.

    Even more shockingly, some of these films were primarily marketed towards children!

    Redditor alina_love was curious to hear which non-horror films the Reddit community saw as children still send shivers down their spines today, leading them to ask:

    "What's a non horror movie that traumatized you as a kid?"

    It Was Tim Burton, After All...

    "'Pee Wee's big adventure'."

    "Large Marge scared the crap out of little me."

    "I was even scared of the fortune teller."- BlueStarrSilver·

    With A Title Like "Temple Of Doom"...

    "'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'."

    "The scene where the guy gets his heart ripped out traumatized me for years."- Pbhf

    That Funeral Scene Though...

    "'My Girl'."

    "Fear of death, fear of losing a friend, fear of bees, fear of puberty."- heidismiles

    macaulay culkin kiss GIFGiphy

    Jurassic Park's Got Nothing On This...

    "'The Land Before Time'."

    "Watching Little Foot’s mother die was awful."- HourglassSass

    He'll Always Regret Not Bringing Her To The Museum...

    "'Bridge to Terabithia'."- jumpstart-the-end

    "Everything goes so well and it falls apart SO FAST and your left absolutely traumatized."- VortexDestroyer99

    The Reason People Hold On To Their Appliances For As Long As They Do...

    "The Brave Little Toaster'."- Catgurl

    "The junkyard scene alone was responsible for so many nightmares."- ManChildMusician

    brave little toaster animation GIF by Coolidge Corner TheatreGiphy

    And Let's Not Forget The Coachman's Smile...

    "Disney’s version of 'Pinocchio'."

    "The scene where kids are turned into donkeys and kept on the island and then resold was f*cking weird."

    "You felt bad for that bully kid after he looked sad and nobody understood what he said because he was a donkey."- earnestlikehemingway

    Few Things More Sad And Scary Than Deforestation

    "'Ferngully: The Last Rainforest'."

    "That evil tree scared me so bad."- slutsdotnet

    Anything But "Truly Scrumptious"...

    "The 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' Childcatcher guy!"

    "I'm still scared of him!"- Jet_Maypen

    child GIFGiphy

    Offing Children One By One...In A Children's Movie!

    "'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' boat scene."

    "Honorable mention of claustrophobia when Augustus gets stuck in the chocolate tube."

    "UGH!"- looseseal-bluth

    At Least We Know He Had A "Sole"...

    "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

    "That poor shoe….."- dalalice5555

    At Least The Song Is Catchy...

    "Neverending Story."

    "Not even Artax, which was awful, but the Rockbiter and his good strong hands."- marxychick1

    Neverending Story 80S GIFGiphy

    Dorothy Gettying Electro Shock Therapy Says it All...

    "Return to Oz."- Jeff_Steelflexx

    "Horrifying! What about the animated wig heads?"- weensfordayz

    The Reigning King Of Childhood Trauma

    "Old Yeller."- IceTech59

    "I remember watching this on TV during, I think, Wonderful World of Disney (Sunday nights were Disney night on TV)."

    "Cried and cried and cried."

    "I've never been able to watch it again and I've never shown it to my kids!"- crowwitch

    Not All Friendships Are Tenable... A Terrifying Thought

    "'The Fox and the Hound'."

    "Still makes me incredibly sad, lol."- mental_reincarnation

    best friends friendship GIFGiphy

    Sometimes, writers and filmmakers simply overestimate what might go over a child's head.

    Or, for that matter, they might underestimate their emotional capacity.

    Regardless, ask any of Fairuza Balk's fans which is scarier, Return to Oz or The Craft, and their answer will be immediate...

    (... and it won't be The Craft...)


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    The Absolute Best Ways To Subtly Mess With Someone's Head

    Close-up of a man wildly smiling with his face painted like the joker
    Photo by Mihail Tregubov

    Sometimes it's fun to toy with someone.

    Especially if it's an enemy or a loved one who simply deserves a good ribbing.

    Some cryptic sentences can send anyone into a tailspin.

    And oh the fun that can be had.

    You have to be as vague as possible and as sincere.

    You have to sell the sincerity. That's vital!

    And then just watch them implode.

    Redditor theary18 wanted to hear about the most creative ways to throw somebody off their game, so they asked:

    "What is the best thing to say to someone to subtly f**k with their head?"

    I love to come up behind someone and say "I can't believe they would treat you this way. I got you girl!"

    Then I scurry away.

    Tee-hee...

    It's YOU!

    For Me GIF by Liz HuettGiphy

    "Just tack on the phrase 'given your history' to any question you ask someone."

    "Are you sure you want another drink? Given your history?"

    "Do you mind driving? Given your history?"

    hamletreset

    Mean Kids...

    "I moved to my elementary school in the 5th grade. Mid-year, a boy came up to me and said, 'I really thought you were gonna be somebody.' I'm now 45 and I'm still like, what the f**k was he talking about?"

    NicklePlatedSkull

    "Likely something they heard a parent say to someone. Kids love to repeat the dumb stuff you say the next day at school."

    itsallgoodman2002

    "All jokes aside he probably thought you were someone else. I've done the same things countless times and it's happened to me a few."

    Download_more_ramram

    "I would interpret this as this kid hearing there's gonna be a 'new kid' and then their imagination ran wild as to who this new star is going to be, that it will be like in some kid movie or something, but you turned out to be just another kid student."

    i_was_planned

    I Like You

    "I don't get why other people don't like you."

    Dependent_Main2643

    "Another variant is..."

    "I don’t care what everyone else is saying. I think you’re great!"

    "They’ll take it as a compliment at first but then they’ll think about it and it’ll eat away at them."

    Oh-Cool-Story-Bro

    "A guy I work with says this time to me every time I help him 'I don’t care what everyone else says about you you’re alright. Literally everyone else. We did a poll.' XD guy says some crazy s**t. When he started he tried to convince us he was a flat earther. He just likes fucking with people."

    ThreeBeatles

    Rumors

    “'I heard about you.'"

    ignorantpigeon

    "Whenever I hear this I always respond with 'if it’s all good, it’s all lies.' Usually shows my sense of humor and if it is bad things they heard it usually lightens the mood."

    ElApolloLoco

    "Years ago I worked at a cafe and function venue which was sold after a few years to a new catering company. The first time I met the new restaurant manager I introduced myself and she exclaimed 'Oh, you’re winoforever!' and I was a bit weirded out. Then not long later I met the new owner and she also said 'Oh, you’re winoforever!' I still wonder twenty years later what they’d both heard about me."

    winoforever_slurp_

    Problems

    Drunk Party Girl GIFGiphy

    "Go up to someone at a party and say: 'I just want you to know that personally, I have no problem with you being here.'"

    LuketheMook

    "I once got drunk and effectively said that to a girl at a wedding. 'I don't care what everyone else thinks, I always liked you' or something like that."

    Supersnazz

    Parties are the perfect setting for these shenanigans.

    Especially with the drinkers.

    But get them at least semi-sober.

    I got You

    Okaay What GIF by ABC NetworkGiphy

    "If you are chatting with someone and another person walks up look at them and say 'I just want you to know that I was defending you' then turn and walk off. It's a good 2fer."

    could_use_a_snack

    Hush

    "'We know, but don't worry, we'll keep it a secret.'"

    ch3rrycsmos_

    "A friend in high school (actually still a current friend) said something similar to me and it definitely f**ked with my head. 'You know you're not fooling anyone, right?' He wouldn't elaborate and it took me the rest of the day to figure out he was f**king with me. As a guy with imposter syndrome, especially as a teen, that had me turned for a bit."

    ablackcloudupahead

    You Again

    "If it’s someone you interact with repeatedly, always introduce yourself as if you’ve never met before."

    Stillwater215

    "I keep doing this to a guy I see very occasionally. He's a friend of my sister-in-law, but I've introduced myself to him at least four times. Right now, I'm trying to picture his face and I totally can't, so if I see him again, I'll introduce myself again. He remembers me though. And I don't have this issue with anyone else, I just can't remember this guy's face for some reason."

    KrtekJim

    Big Mouth

    "You really need to brush your teeth."

    setthepinnacle

    "Somebody jokingly left a message on the 'tip' line that said 'Take a breath mint.'"

    "I'm like 90% sure it was just the first thing that came to his head but it f**ked with me for weeks. I was self-conscious when talking to people, being close to them with my mouth open, and I'd constantly be brushing longer/harder taking mouthwash a couple extra times a day, and using mints."

    ToFaceA_god

    Head Issues

    Think About It GIF by IdentityGiphy

    "Give all your friends a few dollars to compliment their hat if they’re not wearing one. When 50 people insist you’re wearing a hat, you start to think you’re wearing a hat. It will drive them insane."

    Stillwater215

    Hats off for that last one. That's harmless but devious.

    Do you have any tips to add? Let us know in the comments below.

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    People Who Said 'F**k It' And Did Something Crazy Describe What Happened

    laughing woman wearing pink sweater
    Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash

    Societal pressures shape how people act most of the time, but every now and then someone comes along who doesn't care what other people think.

    They do what they want, when they want without guilt or remorse.

    According to President Theodore Roosevelt:

    "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

    Much less rare are the times when otherwise conscientious people decide to throw caution to the wind. Almost everyone had at least one moment in life when they decide to go for it.

    Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, right?

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    The Weirdest Thing People's Partners Did That Totally Turned Them On

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    Part of the fun of dating and being in a relationship are the unexpected, impulsive moments.

    What's funny is how these could be equally arousing moments, too, even if they're moments that we never expected to make us feel that way.

    Redditor thann3 asked:

    "What is the weirdest thing your partner did that turned you on?"

    Backing Up

    "When he backs into a parking spot, he puts his right hand on the back of my seat when he looks behind him."

    "Hnnnngggggghhh. Gets me going and I don't know why."

    - evilpinkmoney

    "Every time someone mentions this, I am reminded of the time I did it and accidentally backhanded this girl in the face."

    - kingoflint282

    That Reading Voice

    "In high school, this girl had a soothing voice. Every time she read out loud, I had goosebumps and she gave me butterflies."

    - donbruh

    Overwhelmingly Happy

    "I can’t think of anything weird my husband did, but the first night of our honeymoon, we were talking about the wedding and our future, and I started crying because I was so happy (and told him that’s why I was crying)."

    "He was smiling and gave me a kiss and then whispered, 'I don’t know why, but you crying just now turned me on.'"

    "Lol (laughing out loud), it didn’t turn me on, but it did make me laugh, and I thought it was weird-cute."

    - snarkylarkie

    Safety First

    "On the first date, he put my seatbelt on. It surprised me because I heard of men opening doors for their dates but not putting their seatbelt on. It just showed a very caring yet masculine side of him."

    "The tension of knowing we wanted of each other but agreed to take it slow just made me go feral in my head."

    "A year and a half later, he still does it to this day. He even gets 'mad' when I don't let him. I still blush when he does it, especially when other people are in the car with us."

    - eeeeriemarie

    Certain Accessories

    "It wasn't my girlfriend, but over a Skype call maybe a decade ago when I was a teenager, I was on a call with a female friend I had the hots for."

    "I casually mentioned that I had a thing for girls in glasses."

    "She gasped, told me to wait there, and scurried downstairs. About 20 seconds later, she rushed back up, jumped onto her bed with her jaw resting on her fists, and low and behold, she was wearing glasses."

    "We laughed, I didn't know what to say, but that was the cutest and sexiest way of letting me know she liked me."

    - GemoDorgon

    Good Chemistry

    "I know it sounds weird, but her breath is intoxicating. It’s naturally somewhat sweet, and of course, she thinks I’m crazy."

    "Edit: We know it’s not diabetes, ketosis, or any other medical issue. We’ve been together for over 30 years and it’s just good chemistry."

    - yoooozername

    That Deep Stare

    "An ex-girlfriend of mine looked at me in a certain way every now and again that just did something to me, like a bit of a stare deep into my soul knowing she wants all of me. Every day I hope someone will recreate and enhance it."

    - SamCham10

    The Perfect Sweater

    "When she wears THAT sweater, I'm powerless."

    - wastedmytwenties

    "Can someone link a pic of this type of sweater? Asking for a friend."

    - schnaizer91

    The Sleeve Roll Trick

    "My boyfriend rolled up his sleeves kind of slowly the other day, and I felt like I couldn’t hear anything for like a solid minute, lollllll (laughing out loud)."

    - farrah_barra

    The Corniest Jokes

    "This man will make the corniest joke in the whole world, and then his whole face lights up as he giggles at it. Gets me every time."

    - Hobbbitttuallly

    The Perfect Wine Pour

    "We had our honeymoon in Italy and he noticed the waitstaff poured wine really beautifully, so he replicated it. Now I have him pour all my drinks for me."

    "For some reason, the way his wrist moves when he pours really gets me going."

    - chicken-and-awfuls

    Specific Arm Movements

    "Two things."

    "When he's working on something mechanical and he starts getting serious, he'll flip his cap backward. It's an absent-minded thing and F**K is it sexy. And when he's working overhead, the way his arms flex. Watching him lift things into our attic is an instant turn-on. It's f**king weird, but godD**N does it do it for me."

    "Also when I wear something sexy or low cut and he's not expecting it, he'll stutter if he's mid-sentence. We'll be talking from another room for instance, and I'll toss on a revealing shirt and walk in there and he'll lose his train of thought. Or shake his head like he needs to clear it. Your man making you feel sexy is the ultimate sexy move."

    - shimmydownnow

    Love Language: Physical Touch

    "It's the gentle physical touch in public. That little 'Love you' touch as they scurry away to do a thing. Those random touches turn me on so quickly."

    - 1beeratatime

    Totally Saved It

    "He fixed the shower in my truly horrible, low-rent grad school apartment and changed the oil on my car. Not sure why, but that just did things to me."

    "If you were to ask my husband, self-deprecating humor would probably be his answer."

    "On our first date, he and I went to see this stage production of 'Jekyll and Hyde.' At the bar, they were selling these cute little shots of Bailey's/Kahlua, with each liquor on separate sides of the glass. Me, being incredibly graceful in all things always, completely dumped the Bailey's half onto my blouse."

    "His eyes got all big, not sure how to react, and I just sighed, turned to him, and reintroduced myself like, 'Hi, I'm (my name). This kind of thing happens a lot.'"

    "He busted up laughing, I ordered a scotch, and we've been together for the past 11 years."

    - anyesuki

    Simply Existing

    "Exist. My girlfriend could literally just stand there and I could and would get a chill down my spine."

    - andytheloser12

    While we were expecting these responses to be, well, weird, most of these were actually pretty cute or heartwarming.

    Sometimes when it comes to relationships and intimacy, something can feel weird simply because it's unexpected, but maybe the unexpected moments are among the best parts of the relationship!

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