• three@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    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 😅

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    14 days ago

    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.

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    15 days ago

    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.

  • douglasg14b@beehaw.org
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    15 days ago

    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

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    16 days ago

    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

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    15 days ago

    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.

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      15 days ago

      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.

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    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.

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    16 days ago

    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?

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        15 days ago

        I’m not! I’m barely even right handed, honestly - I’m incredibly uncoordinated.

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      16 days ago

      Just as easily from every angle? No slowdown at all, even for mirrored text?

      That’s pretty cool, even if it is mostly useless.

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        15 days ago

        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.

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        15 days ago

        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

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            15 days ago

            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?