I can make a water droplet sound with my mouth. At first I had to flick my cheek to do it effectively, but nowadays I can do it sneakily without. Great head turner in waiting rooms 😅
I can hold a pencil using my forehead.
When you say hold, what do you mean?
Like furrowing your forehead and holding it in the creases? Or is it more of a balance type situation?
Do you pick it up with your forehead as well, or does this thing need finger loading?
What part/s of the pencil can be held, is it the side? Dull end? Sharp end?
A fairly useless skill.
Hahaha, so joyfully useless!
Impressive
I can make two sounds that I haven’t been able to locate in the IPA chart. They’re a voiced and voiceless pair. I can only describe then as the sounds of a goose or duck.
I can run any piece of machinery with an hour of goof around time. Doesn’t matter what it is. Let me poke around it for an hour or so and I’ll have all the controls and most quirks figured out.
Sadly it’s useless because employers won’t give me a chance to prove it.
I’m strangely good at catching things intuitively (??).
Like, if my kid throws something at me, I can catch it without looking at it. Almost every time, it’s fun
I can read and write the standard galactic alphabet from commander keen
I can make my ears rumble on command.
Huh. TIL I can do this also
Yes I can do that too.
Same here, and I also learned it trying to learn how to wiggle my ears.
Rumble? Tell me more!
I figured it out while trying to teach myself to wiggle my ears.
I can push air out my ears, I would call it more of a crackle so maybe op is talking about something different. Never thought of is as something to be proud of though …
It’s something I can do that apparently not a lot of people can. Can’t be proud of being unique or different?
Kinda like Aphantasia, you literally have no idea it’s not the norm until someone explains it like you’re a fucking alien.
Pitty I’m nowhere near the UK though.
Not entirely useless, but I can throw something into a trash can damn near every time without missing. Even if I can’t see the trash can, but know where it is
I can talk just like Hoggle in the Labyrinth, and I learned the trick on how to roll the balls around on my hand the way David Bowie does in the movie.
And yes, I know that David Bowie was not the person who did it. And no, I can’t do it as well as the person who did it did.
Back in uni I discovered I can titrate perfectly. Normally you have to do at least 5 or 6 titrations and average the ones that match closest, but I never needed more than 2; A rough titration to get a ballpark figure, then a second to get the exact volume. Any more after that only ever confirmed the first figure.
My professor didn’t believe me the first time I came up to her and said my 2 measurements were identical, so told me to do it again in front of her. I produced the same measurement again, and she said she’d never seen anyone do that before, but I’d still have to do at least 3 measurements each time for my coursework.Unfortunately I’ve never titrated anything since leaving uni.
I am also pretty good at rating tits
I’m not trained in dancing but have shown up in the background of music videos because of my skills. Nothing impressive, but still good enough to he on camera.
I can beat the original Pikmin game in 7 in-game days, which is very close to the limit to how fast the game can be beaten which is 6 days!
No one can beat me at simon, that four color memory game. I don’t remember what my high score was but I can easily get to level 60 before I start to struggle
If I saw this in a Tinder bio, I would swipe right.
I’m not on tinder, is that the good way or the bad way?
Yes
I can read text in any orientation, even if mirrored, as easily as if it was right side up / not mirrored. Not sure why, and almost completely useless, but was surprised to discover that supposedly not everyone can do this?
Just curious, are you left-handed?
I’m not! I’m barely even right handed, honestly - I’m incredibly uncoordinated.
I definitely can’t!
Just as easily from every angle? No slowdown at all, even for mirrored text?
That’s pretty cool, even if it is mostly useless.
Yep, it’s like it’s automatically transformed back to normal in my mind’s eye :). Mirrored and upside-down presents a little challenge, but everything else is no trouble.
TIL4u?
(If applicable in your region)
I laughed in my head about this. Then sometime ago, I realized emergency vehicles had this on purpose because it looked the correct-way-around when I saw it through the rearview mirror
:) yes,
realized
a privilege! Owing to our ability to notice when words are mirrored in the first place
Fr, for the longest time, I just stared and squinted like having smelt a bad fart, thinking, did they make a mistake printing it that way? Why?
I can bend my fingers between the last phalanx bones