I'm "scary".

in the past week at work or with co-workers, I've heard the phrase "you're scaring me" about eight times. I'm not sure why this is. some of the things that have "scared" co-workers...

- eating tofu for lunch

- admitting ownership of a pink nintendo DS

- making a joke that a co-worker friend "tosses the salad" in response to him saying if he drank too much he'd "toss his cookies", and then having to define "toss the salad" to everyone, as none of them had heard the expression

- making another joke at the aforementioned co-worker, claiming we weren't that much different, "I'm in MENSA, you're in NAMBLA" and then having to again explain my joke (which really ruins the humour, but these people aren't the most cultured or intelligent lot)

- reminiscing about my pastel T&C Surf t-shirts from childhood

- making a reference to jonathan swift's a modest proposal (and, you guessed it, having to explain the reference)

- recommending brokeback mountain to people after heath ledger died

- knowing of and having seen nude pictures of the deceased posted on the internet

- insisting that the aforementioned movie was not gay porn, and pointing out there was actually more boob than wang in the damn movie

- opining that jake gyllenhaal was better looking than heath ledger

- when the receptionist mentioned seeing a trailer for "the hobbit" online, I asked if it wasn't actually hobbit porn she saw, as I wasn't aware a trailer existed (making the connection of fetish pornography to something obscure viewed on the internet is too sophisticated of humour, I guess)

- invoking rule 34 as explanation for the above

- finding the idea of naked midgets with furry feet somewhat amusing and not at all unusual in this day and/or age


as I was leaving the office today, it was pointed out that it was a common theme for people to express fear of me, and the co-worker asked why I thought that was. I don't think she was impressed with my answer:

I work with small minded idiots.

seriously, if the people I work with can't handle pop culture, basic internet culture and even mildly homosexual innuendo, they're pretty much dead to me.

and they wonder why I do my damnedest to make them uncomfortable and refuse to conform to their values.