Things that you notice but (most) other people overlook

[TheoK]

In Salò there is a scen where the President tells one of his absurd "jokes". The "joke" is a pun based on the fact that "six to eight" and "six times eight" apparently are expressed in the same way in Italian. The sum, forty-eight, is the number on a street in a city in the Friuli region in northern Italy, where Gestapo had their headquarters 1943-45. The number also occurs in other ways in the film: the fascist leaders are four, the prostitutes and the female pianist are four. After one boy and one girl are killed early in the film, there are eight youngsters of each sex.

In addition Marquis de Sade was obsessed by numbers.

Most people overlook fine allusions like that.

[TheoK]

Or this one. This is so stunningly but painfully typical: when I was bullied in lower elementary I gave some of the bullies some unexpected visits to the dentist. Then a psychologist came home to us and told me that I must stop watching TV, because TV made me violent!

I find it even more absurd when someone is that close to truth (TV is verily shit) but yet totally miss it (I never fought unless provoked).

[ZEGH8578]

the 2nd example there i think is common, ordinary, retardedness.
bullying is very prominent in scandinavia, but _nobody_ knows how to detect it. not even remotely.
i too had a few autie-rage moments with my bullies, causing them to keep purely to verbal abuse. the teachers never knew. this was almost 10 consecutive years, and the class teachers had _zero_ idea.

my mother dragged it out of me, then told the teachers, and you know what those briliant geniuses did?
they basically tattle taled on me.
they strolled right up to the bullies and went "have you been bullying him?" "noooo :0" "really? thats weird. he says you did" (i didnt. my mother did.)
obviously, it got ten times worse after that, and i had to autie-rage a few more times...

AS FOR YOUR POINT yes i notice quite often. and now and then, others notice too. my stepmother is particularily amazed at my ability to notice points-of-view or subtle details that others dont, be it movies, or psychology or whatever.

[Bastet]

Before my marker's about to go dry, it puts out more ink on the paper. After the last bit is used up it is dried out.

[P7PSP]

I tend to notice multiples or prime numbers.

[Parts]

Ceilings in public buildings are gross especially when they are high..  Next time you go into a large store with ceiling tiles look at them they tend to be mismatched and fairly dirty .  Next look at the ventilation system and the filth that is around the vents it always makes me think of Legionnaires Disease.  People that I have pointed it out to are always amazed and somewhat grossed out, Kmart near my house is especially bad.  I think most people don't look up that often or carefully 

[ZEGH8578]

Ceilings in public buildings are gross especially when they are high..  Next time you go into a large store with ceiling tiles look at them they tend to be mismatched and fairly dirty .  Next look at the ventilation system and the filth that is around the vents it always makes me think of Legionnaires Disease.  People that I have pointed it out to are always amazed and somewhat grossed out, Kmart near my house is especially bad.  I think most people don't look up that often or carefully

i think its a good example of our general resistance really. ads etc want to make you believe all germs are bad for you, flaunting slogans like "100% bacteria free!" etc, but we can take quite a beating before we go down.
i think someones first reaction to seeing all the filth we wade in, would be to panic "OMG WE SHOULD BE DEAD :0 FLEEE!!!" instead of realizing "wow, ive been submerged in all this shit, and im still totally fine"

['andersom']

Ceilings in public buildings are gross especially when they are high..  Next time you go into a large store with ceiling tiles look at them they tend to be mismatched and fairly dirty .  Next look at the ventilation system and the filth that is around the vents it always makes me think of Legionnaires Disease.  People that I have pointed it out to are always amazed and somewhat grossed out, Kmart near my house is especially bad.  I think most people don't look up that often or carefully

I have to vacuum the shop I work at, including the dressing cubicles. It's not in my job description, but, there I do check out the ceiling every time. Too many arachnophobia in the world to not do that.

[TheoK]

But spiders are 

[ZEGH8578]

spiders are badass

since my first surprising/shocking/mildly traumatizing encounter with a jumping spider, as a kid, i have always been careful not to poke and prod spiders unless absolutely necesary :I

[TheoK]

Speaking of Pasolini: although he was a communist, I notice more and more that I share many opinions with him. This one, for instance: "Long hair on men is just a vulgar way to pretend that you are free in an unfree society". Brilliant.

[El]

Speaking of Pasolini: although he was a communist, I notice more and more that I share many opinions with him. This one, for instance: "Long hair on men is just a vulgar way to pretend that you are free in an unfree society". Brilliant.

Long hair on men is hawt.

['andersom']

But spiders are 

The spiders are, plenty of customers probably are not.

I'll let the critters be on other places, but, the fitting cubicles, I like to have spider free.

["couldbecousin"]

But spiders are 

  But spiders landing on people in the dressing room cause all kinds of panic!   

["couldbecousin"]

  Like my father, I often see physical similarities between unlikely people.
  Sometimes I have to think about it awhile before I realize exactly which physical feature(s)
  are similar.  Sometimes it's just the shape of the eyelids, something really small like that.