Signs that you are comfortably out of the norm.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

I own a sewing machine. And use it.
I wear a beanie in bed, if it's at all cold.
I brush my teeth while sitting on the toilet.
I can't remember people's names.

[Manchuria]

SAT worldwide? Sure, but it is mostly an American thing. So there is few people outside the US that take one.

Yes, quite true! Though it was still about 300,000 in 2014...

Just wanted to flex a bit, haha.

[Risottia]

Take notes in 1600-ish style flowing script.
Left-handed.
Studied physics.
Can speak more than four languages at a more-than-bare-survival level.
Love railways, hate cars.
Can make risotto (actual risotto, not boiled rice ffs) and carbonara (not the shit Olive Garden calls "carbonara").
Openly atheist, married in a church with the Catholic rite by explicit placet of the Archbishop.

[Rojava Free State]

I went on a vacation...to the west bank

[The Blaatschapen]

Take notes in 1600-ish style flowing script.
Left-handed.
Studied physics.
Can speak more than four languages at a more-than-bare-survival level.
Love railways, hate cars.
Can make risotto (actual risotto, not boiled rice ffs) and carbonara (not the shit Olive Garden calls "carbonara").
Openly atheist, married in a church with the Catholic rite by explicit placet of the Archbishop.

English, Italian, Lombard and Piedmontese?

[Pax Nerdvana]

Is it at all unnormal that I can diagnose numerous problems with an NES?

[Dumb Ideologies]

Is it at all unnormal that I can diagnose numerous problems with an NES?

Doctor please use the machinery provided by the hospital.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Is it at all unnormal that I can diagnose numerous problems with an NES?

Doctor please use the machinery provided by the hospital.

In Doctor McCoy's voice:I'm a nerd, not a doctor. I don't need any fancy machinery for it.

[The New California Republic]

I own a sewing machine. And use it.

I own a typewriter and use it.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I own a sewing machine. And use it.

I own a typewriter and use it.

I own an old radio/tv combo from the 1980s, and I use it.

[The New California Republic]

I own a typewriter and use it.

I own an old radio/tv combo from the 1980s, and I use it.

Everything on my bedside table, such as telephone, desk lamp, and alarm clock are all from the 80s.

[Lillorainen]

[...]
I also am really good at visualizing information. Like I can easily picture maps and such as if I’m actually looking at them. Idk how to describe it without sounding like I’m making it all up or like I’m trying to seem special or something, because I’m not. But apparently it’s not normal, as I learned in middle school. I don’t really tell people about it unless they ask (and that’s usually prompted by the fact that I sometimes make weird hand motions when I do it; not trying to show off, it just makes it easier for me to focus for some reason).

Unless of course it is normal. In which case, ignore all of that.
[...]

[...]
Geography (could name every capital of every country on Earth, plus locate them on maps and identify their flags when I was in elementary school; still kind of obsessed but not as much)
[...]

These particular points would make you entirely normal by my standards.

Aside from this, I have a weird obsession for languages (I decided to study linguistics for a reason). Not that I could speak an unusually high number of languages (fluent at three, communicative at two dialects of my first language, able-to-survive at a handful of others), but I'm sort of perfectionist when it comes to the pronunciation of foreign place names, words, and phrases, no matter how exotic that language may be. When playing guessing capitals (the game Xmara beats everyone at, including me, I assume), I tend to try to pronounce the particular capital as correctly as possible, even if this makes it entirely unintelligible for the person quizzing me (for example, I try to make Ulaanbaatar sound as Mongolian as possible, even with their unique way of pronouncing an 'l'). Needless to say, it might drive them crazy. ^^
What else ... I have a weird obsession for road numbering systems (people who know me from roleplays and/or IC social media do know where this can go) and license plates - both already since my childhood.
Generally, I excel at memorizing useless facts - which might not sound particularly weird, until you ask my former schoolmates, who, whenever I meet them today, still quiz me at any possible useless facts about the novel and audioplay series I've been into back then. I somewhat regret bragging about this too much (see here, also for further points showing, that I'm not entirely within the norm), but as a late teen, being made fun of because of this wasn't a problem for me, for I thought, that it's better to gain attention by being ridiculed as a nerd than not getting noticed altogether. Yeah, naïve younger me ...
And the most important point - I'm on NS. I run six main nations (and RP with all of them), next to (currently) ten puppets that serve as NPC-Nations. The only thing that relieves me, is that I'm not the worst person in this regard I've ever met in here.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I own an old radio/tv combo from the 1980s, and I use it.

Everything on my bedside table, such as telephone, desk lamp, and alarm clock are all from the 80s.

Nice. I have an old CRT and a VCR hooked up.

[Isles of Metanoia]

With great power comes great responsibility, with great dignity comes great humulity.

Some of the most unassuming and ordinary looking people are also the most extraordinary. My uncle is a simple man to me when I was a kid, only to find out lately that he was 2 Star General.

My mom's grandparents look dirt poor but they own vast amounts lands in Pangasinan and have family trees proving their noble descent, yet every couple of generations, they look poor because they donate everything to charity before the lineage proves itself again.

I am the top contributor in Wikipedia in the Philippines Article, I have been on intimate terms with Presidents and Vice Presidents. But really, it's bad taste to be self-important and consider yourself special.

Remember the fable of the Sword of Damocles.

[Cantelo]

Both sides of my family fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war.

Fun times.

[The New California Republic]

Everything on my bedside table, such as telephone, desk lamp, and alarm clock are all from the 80s.

Nice. I have an old CRT and a VCR hooked up.

I actually suspect the lamp may be from the late seventies, as to my knowledge that particular lamp was manufactured from the late 70s onwards. The phone and alarm clock have a date of manufacture on them, so they are far easier to know they are from the 80s with absolute certainty.

I've got a stereo multi-band radio tuner from the 80s as well, and looking at old catalog prices it actually cost about as much as a small car at the time. I think it was so expensive because it uses multiple LED lights for the function displays etc, as LED lights were still quite expensive technology at the time, as far as their use in consumer products was concerned.

[The New California Republic]

Both sides of my family fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war.

Fun times.

Eek.

[Isles of Metanoia]

Both sides of my family fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war.

Fun times.

Franco es Fasciste!

Santo Jose Maria Escriva Ora Pro Nobis.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

I went on a vacation...to the west bank

I have no interest in that bank.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Nice. I have an old CRT and a VCR hooked up.

I actually suspect the lamp may be from the late seventies, as to my knowledge that particular lamp was manufactured from the late 70s onwards. The phone and alarm clock have a date of manufacture on them, so they are far easier to know they are from the 80s with absolute certainty.

I've got a stereo multi-band radio tuner from the 80s as well, and looking at old catalog prices it actually cost about as much as a small car at the time. I think it was so expensive because it uses multiple LED lights for the function displays etc, as LED lights were still quite expensive technology at the time, as far as their use in consumer products was concerned.

That's pretty sweet. I have this tape recorder that's old enough that the tape door isn't actually springloaded. I'd reckon it's from the 70s. On a related note, I have a total of 4 tape players: a GE portable stereo (it's basically a Walkman), the previously mentioned tape recorder, a smaller, newer GE tape recorder (maybe from the 90s), and an early 2000s tape/CD/radio combo.

[The Archregimancy]

I believe that I'm the only person posting in NSG who's:

Hunted with pygmies in the Congo rainforest

Been chased by baboons in Nigeria

Taken a helicopter to a former pirate base on a Venezuelan desert island

Hunted Nazis in northern Argentina

Shaken hands with the Duchess of Cambridge

Entered a still-under-excavation ruined 5th-dynasty pyramid in Egypt

There's probably a few others, too; but are those enough signs that I'm 'comfortably out of the norm'?

[United Muscovite Nations]

I believe that I'm the only person posting in NSG who's:

Hunted with pygmies in the Congo rainforest

Been chased by baboons in Nigeria

Taken a helicopter to a former pirate base on a Venezuelan desert island

Hunted Nazis in northern Argentina

Shaken hands with the Duchess of Cambridge

Entered a still-under-excavation ruined 5th-dynasty pyramid in Egypt

There's probably a few others, too; but are those enough signs that I'm 'comfortably out of the norm'?

Arch is, the most interesting man on NSG.

[Risottia]

Take notes in 1600-ish style flowing script.
Left-handed.
Studied physics.
Can speak more than four languages at a more-than-bare-survival level.
Love railways, hate cars.
Can make risotto (actual risotto, not boiled rice ffs) and carbonara (not the shit Olive Garden calls "carbonara").
Openly atheist, married in a church with the Catholic rite by explicit placet of the Archbishop.

English, Italian, Lombard and Piedmontese?

No Piedmontese, sorry.
English, Italian, Milanese, French, Russian, German.

[Risottia]

Arch is, the most interesting man on NSG.

Indeed. There's a reason why I refer to him as His Archiness.

Btw, speaking of rather unique stuff, I believe I'm the only one on NSG that's been a nationwide cadre of a communist party (an actual party, meaning one with MPs, MEPs, and even ministers in the cabinet).

[Cantelo]

Oh god I just remembered this;

I’m not gonna out myself completely because my first NS country was cringey as hell, but the flag ripple option was added as a direct result of me asking about flag ripples in a thread.