Your most obsessive obsession...

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I am not sure where my interest in serial killers came from... I know it has returned again and again and started when I was about 13 or 14 with reading about child killers...maybe bought on by the whole Jamie Bulger case? My mother is very much obsessed with crime fiction and crime tv shows like Waking the dead, Frost, Inspector Morse etc, so of course, it might have come from there.
I even once wrote to a murderer on Death Row, such was my curiosity and desire to do some psychological delving.
Psychology fascinates me....criminology is just another aspect of that.

From age 2 till now, roughly in order:

The "test" pattern of colored bars on tv in the morning with the high-pitches squeal
Bob Ross
Colors*
Rainbows*
Rainbow Brite
Pippi Longstocking
elephants*
Babies and childcare
The Baby-Sitters Club book series
drawing*
a boy from my junior high
painting*
art history*
Lost*
Records and Victrolas
non-fiction*
The Aquabats!*
book collecting*
vintage and period clothing*
clothing in general and the organisation of it in rainbow order*


* means it is still current

Painting is my biggest obsession but it is also my profession so that's to my advantage.

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What is salad cream? Is that the same thing as mayonaise?

The sandwiches sound good. I love cheese sandwiches... now I shall have to try your cucumber one. IF I can figure out what salad cream is LOL

(Are you outside the USA?)

This is going to sound really strange:

National anthems of various countries.

It really is odd to see how many of us have had serial killer obsessions. I have something similar, in that I have a great deal of interest in certain cases which haven't been solved. For instance the EAR/ONS, the Zodiac, and Jack the Ripper. I have no idea where this interest came from, but I believe that it relates to my primary obsession in some way. Here's a partial list, with the items in no particular order, except for the first one.

-Scientific Skepticism. This started as a child. An obsession with things such as Bigfoot, ESP, aliens, ghosts, etc. After some years, I realised that there wasn't actually any good evidence for any of them, and ended up going the other way. These subjects are still a very major interest of mine, but I don't accept that any of them are likely real phenomena. This would be my primary obsession. It's been with me now for about 20 years. The others on this list come and go, but this one always comes back.
-Unsolved serial murders. I believe this relates to the above, in that the underlying interest may be the mystery itself.
-Computers.
-Accents in the English language. I hear accent differences remarkably well, and am fascinated by them.
-History, covering curiously specific periods and areas
-Virology
-US politics.
-Evolutionary theory
-IRC. I've been there Way Too Long now.
-Magic. By which I mean the sleight of hand, and not the ability to hurl fireballs and turn your enemies into pigs.
-Mythology, primarily Christianity, Judaism, Norse and Greek.

Various others have rotated through in during my lifetime. These are the more recent ones.

My obsessions from pre-school to now (mostly in order):

101 Dalmations (1992-1993 & 1997)
Care Bears (1993 & 1994)
Legends of the Hidden Temple (1994-1996)
Lion King (1994-1997)
Lisa Frank products (1994-1997)
cats (1994-1999)
Space Jam (1996 & 2006)
Rugrats (1998-2004)
Ripper Roo (from Crash Bandicoot) (1998-1999 & 2007)
Pokemon (1999 & 2000)
Harry Potter series (2000-2004)
Invader Zim (2001-2005)
Finding Nemo (2003 & 2004)
greyhounds (2003-2006)
a city in Indiana (2003-2006)
Charlie and Lola (2005-2007)

There's also little obsessions I get for a few months, too, but I didn't bother naming them. And yeah, Ripper Roo and Charlie and Lola are my two current obsessions.

The longest lasting "obsession" I've had is still around, and it is with sound systems. I have been a sound engineer since grade school. The most powerful one right now is that with combine harvesters and vehicles, which I plan to turn into a career.

Probably my two biggest obsessions are staying up late using the Internet and playing Thief II fan missions on my computer; and buying books, DVD's, and CD's and keeping them perfectly straight.

- David

Pistol shooting; a good several years that one (I thought of nothing else when I wasn't at the range).

Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica were my earliest.

Number 1: Batman.

Me too lol. After watching Summer of Sam I started reading a bunch of sites about different serial killers.

My main obsessions seem to be cats, wood and movies/shows. Once I find a show I like I have to watch every episode back to back, from every season, and then find out all the info I can about the show.

The obsessions that have lasted the longest for me are books, writing, and oppressive governments. I've had other obsessions, but they've always been more transient.

Ladies in leather,PVC n latex catsuits its my most obsessive obsession as it is a massiv turn on.

Hello.

I am very obsessed with toxins, swords and Japan.

I have a huge collection of things pertaining to all three of those.

I may as well list my current interest, one that's been the most prevalent lately: The Punisher (the "superhero").

For the serial killer interested folks, there's a great website that you all would like called http://www.crimelibrary.com