Felt Like a Duck
 

A friend of mine went through a psychosis a few years ago where she said she felt like a duck and had to act like a duck in order to feel normal. Another friend felt like a penguin. Just out of curiosity I googled "felt like a duck" and got only 234 hits despite 1,100,000 hits for "like a duck". Unfortunately no hits for psychosis "felt like a duck".

I haven't really got a point. Just avoiding work :)

We would prefer that you refrain from posting to these forums (even the Coat Room) unless you have something to say that others are likely to be interested in.

Next time you feel the need to idly type something, maybe just launch the Terminal application and run the command:

cat > /dev/null

Then type away to your heart's content. Press Control-D to stop.

Ornithology, mental illness, statistics... all good subjects.

Only joking. Point taken.

I was interested :)

http://imagesocket.com/images/fx9006f239.jpg

this duck is a sailor

If you're bored, look up the hint on how to run Adventure in the shell. That'll keep you busy for a few hours.

When I'm bored, I go for a walk and count to 1000.
 

Try using your time in a more productive way even if others find it useless and uninterested. You can learn alot by counting to 1000 like learning that humans are very unreliable and are prone to make mistakes most of the time. Humans aren't good at repetitive tasks and that's why computers are a blessing in todays society. Counting to 1000 takes a long time unless you count by 100's or count binary. There are many ways to counts. Human beings have short attention spans and lose focus after a while. I learned all of this by just counting to 1000 and it helps me relate to people better.

It is a miracle that we humans can create things that are much more reliable than ourselves.

thx
RLC

I wonder, does anyone here have ADD or OCD?

I know that I have ADD, but I'm not so sure that I have OCD. I think I do, at least sometimes.

Anyway, I do not think that I could ever count to 1,000.

I would either get distracted and do something else or get to a number like 359 or some other such random number and lose count.

When I get bored, I read, or play the piano, or something to that effect.

Somedays I have SUB (Simple Ursine Brain).

or how about a devil ninja duck?

http://www.kitschcity.com/Ninja%20Devil%20Duck.jpg

DANG! I want me a ninja duck!

And for the record, a good portion of the population has ADHD (or ADD or "dang your weird") to some extent or another. I hate to say "have it" because all it really is is a differet way for the mind to work, it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. I'm ADD as well, but it's fairly mild.

The only bad thing about having that mind set is that it makes it hard to live in a structured enviroment. So I just try and
____________________stay
away
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as much as I ................................. can! :).

Ah, eventually a thread about ducks! I am going to find myself at last.

Did you ever hear about the software engineer who went to see a shrink? Explaining the nature of his problem, he said:

"I haven’t been feeling quite like myself lately.
And I’d like your help to keep it that way."

:D

this pirate duck would like a word with you sir

http://imagesocket.com/images/446081...16e11_o5ed.jpg

Mitch Hedburg thought that god played a cruel joke on ducks. They love bread but can't walk into a store to buy a loaf.

Good thing Steve Jobs didn't choose ducks instead of cats...we'll all be anticipating the release of Mallard

LOL. This one is rapidly becoming a jokes thread, part II.

http://imagesocket.com/images/cluckcluckb97.jpg

wait that's not a duck it only rhymes with duck

let's get dangerous

http://imagesocket.com/images/darkwing384b.jpg

I'm sure I'm high on the ADD scale. I mean, I can concentrate if put to a difficult task, but definitely can't do just something mundane and mindless by itself. For average tasks I need to have multiple things to do at once. And I'm constantly using the 1/2 second between a click and the computer responding in order to go do something else. People have described my use of two or three screens as manic and insane.

Hmm does that pirate duck realize I have skills like this?

http://www.arcadevault.com/game_pics/duck_hunt.gif

my boys got mah back

bring it on

http://imagesocket.com/images/duck_attack452.jpg

I am not alone anymore! Surrounded by ducks, all those family pictures!

Best thread of the year.

Mexican duck anyone ?

luckily im packing heat

http://wiinintendo.net/wp-content/lightgun_shell2.jpg

this is the concept gun for the wii, RE exclusive gun maybe, we don't know yet.

my friend scrooge mcduck would like to buy this thread out

http://imagesocket.com/images/6198410ac.jpg

Sounds like your friend has really quacked up.

fazstp: I highly recommend the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks here

It details his work with highly unusual mental and neurological disorders that make wanting to act like a duck positively normal!

http://design.origami.free.fr/halle/...20Mvc-926f.jpg
Origami Daffy Duck

Yeah I came across that one a few years back when my wife did a psychology elective as part of her BA. Just shows that normality is completely relative.

the party ducks approve of this thread

http://imagesocket.com/images/DUCK06Ce22.GIF

Chernobyl or New Yorks Sewers, you decide!

Attachment 1358maybe your had spent a night in the demented converting company of this little fella/lady/alien.

okay this is just ridiculous

http://images.beckett.com/celebriduc...heets/kiss.jpg

lol catduck is wacky

http://imagesocket.com/images/hats3f7f.jpg

foe shizzlehttp://www.spadepot.com/catalog/images/fx9019f.jpg

its snoop double dizzle

OMG! I PITTY THE DUCK.....

http://www.spadepot.com/catalog/images/fx9022f.jpg

Ok seriously, thats enough!

infidel ducks will be purged! there will be no revolution!

http://imagesocket.com/images/donald_duck_035e9.jpg

Devil Duckies – and Pope Innocent III Action Figure
 

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Let’s face it – where else can you get Sigmund Freud, Marie Antoinette and Pope Innocent II Action Figures? What, you prefer Shakespeare, Benny Franklin, Chuck Dickens, Ed Poe and Al Einstein? Yep, they got those too! :D

That's not a duck... this is a duck!

oh wow, I totally forgot about this thread hahahaha and it made me laugh. That duck is freaking huge. If I saw that giant duck I'd probably shoot first and ask questions later!

Did you notice the people in the bottom right of the first pic? Gives an idea of the actual size. I'd say "freaking huge" is a pretty fair assessment.

http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/toys...t-btt-1503.jpg

To learn more about these naughty, naughty duckies, visit this NSFW site and type duckie into the search window:
http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/search/

I felt bad that this duck was never on the original thread. Of course, when I see it, I can't help but say to it "Do you now?"

Zalister - Nice iDuck.

When I search for Microsoft Duck, this is what I get...

iDuck is great!

Needs more pirate. GIANT PIRATE DUCK

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For Leopard afficionados.

either that, or she had a quack for a doctor...

Even a quack would be a step up for her. Quite frankly I've been appalled at the 'help' she's gotten in the past. You'd think someone taken to a hospital in the middle of a psychotic break would be taken seriously. She's usually checked out again a day or two later and left to fend for herself. The model for community based care of the mentally ill is a joke.

I don't know if google have changed their algorithms but since I first posted this thread hits for "felt like a duck" have gone from 234 to 5,820 and "like a duck" has gone from 1,100,000 to 2,990,000.

Unfortunately psychosis "felt like a duck" only gets a hit on this thread :rolleyes:

Someone used the term "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, guess what, it's a duck". And I thought of this thread, where many of our ducks don't quack or really look much like ducks either. Guess the guy was wrong. More ducks:

I was tempted to find a picture of ducks copulating, but I figured.. duck that.