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Ditto. I dig Swedish, Japanese & German cars in no particular order.

Denis Istomin is my favorite inspirational tennis player/athlete. He overcame a serious car accident to succeed on the ATP tour. He is of Russian descent and plays for Uzbekistan.

I could go on forever about my favorite special interest, cats. My favorite cat was a Siamese mix named Samantha who lived to be 20.

I collect and stream music I like. Mostly Japanese pop & subculture such as Shibuya-kei, denpa, touhou, vocaloid & doujin music.

I have to go to work now, but as promised I will respond to everyone. Also I am not sure it's good form to have so many of my post pumping up the thread. I should ask about that.

I have all the Pokemon games yet but ultra sun and ultra moon.

Rejseholdet
Prior to 1927, a Danish police executive named 'Mensen' pitched the idea of a Danish FBI. A team of specialist police officers who could assist local police forces in their work, should it be lacking in any way.

His idea was shot down. However, as a significant number of arson related incidents started to happen around the country, the local police divisions were at a loss to figure out what was happening. Between 1925 and 1927, a total of 47 fires happened, and the average percentage of solved cases fell from 81% to 46%. So with all of Denmark's insurance companies begging for someone to do something, Mensen's dream came true; Rejseholdet was born on August 23rd 1927.

At first, they were only supposed to deal with the arsons, but were later granted access to 70 old murder case files, that had gone cold, where the oldest was from 1825!

Rejseholdet did good, both on arson cases (the thing it was born to do) but also murder cases, kidnappings, rape, narcotics smugling etc. It became very popular with the general public.

A tv-series by the name Rejseholdet (English name: Unit One) aired in 2000, and followed a main cast of 7 characters for 32 episodes. All episodes were based on real cases that the real Rejsehold had dealt with over the years, though with altered names and locations, potentially also some altered details to spare the victims and their families.

Additionally, The Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci sequence can, as many people know, be found in nature all around us, if not at least the principles of it. The number of spirals on a pine cone, turning each way. The segments of a pineapple. How branches sprout from a tree, and how leaves sprout from a branch, in order to get the optimal exposure to sunlight. The spirals in which sunflower seeds are sorted, so that it can contain as many seeds as possible. And the ever so famous nautilus shell, although that one is actually a logarithmic spiral, not a golden spiral.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987...

The numbers themselves can be toyed with in fascinating ways.
Take two numbers from the sequence, following each other (89 and 55 as an example) and divide the two: 1,61818181818... However, the first 3 decimals are the ones that matter: 1:1,618. This is also known as The Golden Ratio, phi. Some people see this as a sign of god. I don't know really.

Another fun thing to do is:
Take a number, let's say 3 for simplicity.
Divide 3 with each number in the fibonacci sequence, but only by 'wholes', and write down what remains.
Example: 13/3 = 4 + 1 = 1 is the remaining number and the one that is important right here.

So, using that principle, here goes with the number 3...
0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1...

Do you see that?
It repeats itself in 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 1

You can take any number, follow this principle, and it will give you an additional sequence that repeats itself, over and over again (some of them are longer than others).

Ah that's impressive I still remember when Pokemon just becoming popular in the U.S. Which was almost two decades ago. Looking back on it I had wish I had got into it more. It seems fun to collect all the little furry animals. I do remember team rocket though. They are the best losers ever! I love them.

Hey what do they call that pokemon game where you find pokemon in real life areas, kind of?

My main interest is dissociation, especially traumatic dissociation and structural dissociation of the self. I'm very interested in dissociative, somatic, and posttraumatic disorders but also am interested in how trauma and dissociation might influence or manifest in other disorders such as borderline personality disorder. A secondary interest is autism spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disorders, and I'm very interested in how ASD might make someone more vulnerable to dissociation or might interact with dissociation. Hence my study (see my thread) being about exactly that. I can talk at people about it for hours (and actually have a website dedicated to traumatic dissociation in particular), but I'm not sure how much background information I would have to give to a non-psych oriented crowd just to get to the fun stuff. I'll gladly expand if anyone is interested though!

i am interested in autism/Asperger syndrome and medical and mental health issues.

I'm interested in occult subjects, fashion, makeup, culture differences and psychology. I wish i was interested in computers and such at least i could have a job..

I'm interested in all things Christmas, but mainly history and craftsmanship.

I've started a small business, and I'm developing two related products, and in my spare time, I'm often reading books on Christmas history or researching the history of specific decorations.