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  ... give me your hand.Do you feel my heart beating?La la la laDo you underst...Khm. And now for something compl... Right - to the topic. And the topic is a simple one - do you guys talk to your significant other (and no, your significant other is not your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband/pet! It is, in fact, you yourself!)?I admit to:a) singing to myself whilst taking a shower, b) talking to myself while I code - I have mostly found myself using short oneliners such as:"Ha! Bugger off!" (@nasty bug)"You wouldn''t" (@crash or memory leak)"No, no, no, no, NO!" (@persistent bug + break object (agains head) + get up/headrush, run to kitchen, think why I just did that, not think of a reason + sit down and refresh Gamedev/CNN)"Right - if that goes there and x is 20 then ..." (inner monologue - applies to general coding)c) while I take a stroll through the city late at night (happens every now and then after a social event) during which I often strike up some pseudo-intelligent conversation with myself. Or - I sing to myself, which is somewhat more tricky since getting some song to haunt you minutes before turning in can turn out to have rather nasty side effects.   "Finishing in second place, simply means you are the first loser." - PouyaCat
  I curse at my code in computer science class quite often. My most recent line is:  "God mother-fucking dammit:  Work you piece of shit!*" Bah, programming brings out the worst in me. It's practically the only time that I find myself actually cussing out loud.*Sorry about the language. Edit: I also sometimes talk to myself when I'm writing prose, but I think it's more thinking aloud than actually holding a conversation with myself.Edit2: I, too, do the "if that goes there and x is 20 then" thing, but I never do it out loud."You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotsim that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it." -- Malcom X  [edited by - Mscgamer on February 12, 2004 6:23:29 PM];quote:Original post by Crispy   "Right - if that goes there and x is 20 then ..." (inner monologue - applies to general coding)I do that, and swear at various bugs.(i.e. "God dammit, why the hell is that happening?!" )Dillon "Toxic Hippo" Cower  [Some Page|Another Thing]   [edited by - Toxic Hippo on February 12, 2004 6:01:36 PM];  I do the "Right...and if x is 20, then..." sometimes, and when I''m walking home from school sometimes I start a conversation with myself, never aloud, and it''s usually me just talking silently about a problem.  Also, when I''m walking home sometimes I''ll have a blank mind and suddenly something I saw on TV will pop into my head and I''ll start laughing or repeat the joke to myself outloud.   ;  pfft, bunch of normal people, i have full blown convastions and arguments with myself (including one i lost, i''m still trying to work that out), sometimes more than 3 or 4 sides are present... however, the best example of my slightly mental thought pattern is the short convastion i had with myself, out loud, one day while getting ready to go down town to buy a new phone..."ah, i know, while i''m in town i could buy some trainners as well, kill two birds with one stone... but, if i had a bigger stone i could kill more than two birds... mental note: buy bigger stone"having thought this there was a short pause while i stopped moving and ran over that sentance a few times in my head, shook my head, said "ok, i''m going crazy" and wandered off to town...(and no, i didnt buy a big stone);  I don''t talk with myself out loud, but my thoughts themselves are based on internal conversations involving anywhere from 2 to 4 people...all of them being me, but with different exxagerated personalities. Eerything I think is in the form of conversation or occasionally soliloquy, which even I think is a little odd. ;  When I''m trying to fix problems, usually mechanical or otherwise complex, I''ll argue with myself, the vocal me usually doing the berating on the non-vocal me for bad ideas, screwing up or bad plans."No, that''s a dumb idea....there, that''s better, eh?"Probably do it in order to create a distinciton between my own voice and my internal voice, otherwise f I try to purely think my argumetns with myself, its really just the same voice, isnt it, so I end up going in circles which usually degrade into one or two word mantras that drive me nuts.So, I talk to myself and we just hash it out together. ;  i talk out loud but for each voice i give a slightly different tone, as well as expression and even movements... Another one of my fav tricks is, during these little convastions i''ll even have various friends involved using proximations of how they think etc to add some extra depth and point of view to the discussion;  Oh yes, I talk to myself all the time when I''m one the computer. It''s been pointed out to me on a number of occaisons. I also sing in the car. Seriously though, talking to yourself while coding helps you think. Or it does me at least. ;  I think to myself, and sometimes I imagine myself having debates with someone else if I''m trying to decide on an opinion. 