The name something stupid that you can do and most people can't thread

[Oftencold]

The first time I ever threw darts left handed I threw three bullseyes.

(Sadly, I hear, two were on the wrong target, and the third was on an actual bull.)

 

[Billo_Really]

Read minds!!!!!

 

[Thorgasm]

(Sadly, I hear, two were on the wrong target, and the third was on an actual bull.)

I'll gladly take your money.

 

[Oftencold]

Read minds!!!!!

I touched on this in another post, but my ability to resist is overtaxed by the actual use of five exclamation points.

Theses are all Terry Pratchett quotes from his Discworld books.

'Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.' -- in Eric

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. -- in Reaper Man

'And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.' -- in Maskerade

 

[Thorgasm]

I touched on this in another post, but my ability to resist is overtaxed by the actual use of five exclamation points.

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FOR THIRTEEN EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Oftencold]

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FOR THIRTEEN EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course.

A punctuation guide, since presumably the sentence was meant to be an interrogative, and thus properly punctuated with a question mark.

 

[Thorgasm]

Of course.

A punctuation guide, since presumably the sentence was meant to be an interrogative, and thus properly punctuated with a question mark.

It was rhetorical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mrgreen:

 

[Kernel Sanders]

I can dislocate all ten fingers and my left shoulder. I was a big hit in middle school. When I was younger I could also do the bend your thumb to your wrist thing. I still can, but now I have to stretch it out a bit first

 

[1069]

Oh, I just remembered: I can juggle.
I can juggle two objects quickly and skillfully, or three objects slowly and laborously.
Either way, it's not very entertaining to watch, and if juggling isn't entertaining, it's an entirely pointless skill.
I suspect, however, that I could get a lot better at it if I practiced more.

I can also play piano: pretty well, actually, but only a few pieces.
Since I no longer have a piano, and neither does anyone else I know, it's pointless.
Any time I come across an electric keyboard, I jump on it and start playing my songs, but they don't seem to translate well to electric keyboards.
Not particularly impressive, ergo useless.

 

[Oftencold]

Oh, sorry.

 

[Edify_Always_In_All_Ways]

It's gotta be real and it has to be an almost totally useless skill.



Example: I can solve the Rubik's cube in less than two minutes even though I'm color-blind.

I own a Rubik's cube in various shades of gray that I can go sub-two minutes on (I'm not colorblind, though).

I can bend my elbow inside out, but my awesome skill is mental math (two three-digit numbers in a few seconds). Before calculators became allowed in our math classes i was in high demand.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

I can remember almost anything spoken to me, practically, word for word. Comes in handy in my job, but it's a pain in the ass when I'll hear something that reminds me of some random conversation I had with someone 30 years ago...which then replays in my head.

If someone tells me the first 3 digits of their phone number, in my local area, I can tell you what town they live in and whether the phone numbers is to a landline or cellphone.

My brother has the best sense of direction I've ever seen. If he goes some place once, he can get you back to that place, even if he hadn't been there in 20 or more years.

 

[Gunface]

I'm not sure if it's completely useless, but...
I'm really good at languages. I can phonetically read Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Greek, and I'm learning the Georgian alphabet because I think it's pretty.
I also speak Mandarin Chinese and I study German and Spanish in school.
But I can learn an alphabet to the point where I can read a paragraph with some pauses for thought if I've studied it for about an hour.
If I have a few days, I can get an alphabet down so I can read a piece of writing without pausing at all.
Same with numbers, I learned the Korean numbers from 1-100 in 10 minutes and within an hour could recite them backwards and skipping by twos, etc.
It's pretty useless as of right now, though, because I live in the middle of nowhere and I have no one to practice languages with. :2razz:

Apart from that, I don't really have any useless skills.
I can jump on a kitchen counter without taking a running start..? My high jump is pretty good. Ha.

 

[Billo_Really]

I touched on this in another post, but my ability to resist is overtaxed by the actual use of five exclamation points.

And the reason for this is why?

 

[Hatuey]

Anybody ever heard of the superhero Forge? Alright so Forge has the ability to build pretty much everything his mind can come up with. I have to some extent a similar ability. I can think of a place in my mind and can create an image of it. I've met other people that can do that but not in the same manner. Some days I literally think these places are real. I've done this since I was a little kid.

 

[1069]

Anybody ever heard of the superhero Forge? Alright so Forge has the ability to build pretty much everything his mind can come up with. I have to some extent a similar ability. I can think of a place in my mind and can create an image of it. I've met other people that can do that but not in the same manner. Some days I literally think these places are real. I've done this since I was a little kid.

That is neither stupid nor useless.

 

[Hatuey]

That is neither stupid nor useless.

I don't think it's useless. It's stupid because to some extent I know these places don't exist but my mind thinks of them as being so real sometimes I can't tell the difference between my memories of them and those of places I've actually been to. Even before I used drugs I'd dream of these places wake up and draw them in the morning. It's helped pay the bills now that I'm older but to some extent I find it stupid that they only exist in my mind and not elsewhere. Funny thing is that I use to come up with back stories for them.

 

[1069]

I don't think it's useless. It's stupid because to some extent I know these places don't exist but my mind thinks of them as being so real sometimes I can't tell the difference between my memories of them and those of places I've actually been to.

When I was a very little kid, like three or four, I used to have dreams with recurring characters in them. The people I knew in my dream world were very real, very vivid, but they did not exist in reality. They were not people I knew in my waking like, not even similar to anyone I knew. Not even composites of anyone I really knew.
My aunt said I was an old soul, and those were maybe people I'd known in my previous life. But I don't think so. They seemed thoroughly modern. They wore regular clothes. In my dreams, we met at real places, places I was familiar with from my waking life.
This sense of leading a double life- one dream, one waking- continued for a number of years, until I was maybe seven or eight, at which point my dreams started to become less vivid and more fragmentary, and I was able to remember less about them.
Eventually, these friends I had in my dream life stopped making appearances in them. I dreamed about actual people, real-life people, when I dreamed about anyone.

I think my stories- my writing- comes from the same place your art does.
Some alternate universe that exists in my mind. Some microcosm.
As an adult, I've never been able to access it as freely as I did when I was young, though.
That's a skill you'll want to hold on to, if you can.

 

[gunner]

I can lick the end of my nose with my tongue[ive not got a big nose before you ask] I don't know if its a common trick, or even a trick. It has its uses though

Paul.

 

[Tucker Case]

I can lick the end of my nose with my tongue[ive not got a big nose before you ask] I don't know if its a common trick, or even a trick. It has its uses though

Paul.

I can do that too and I've got a pretty small nose actually.

 

[Tucker Case]

When I was a very little kid, like three or four, I used to have dreams with recurring characters in them. The people I knew in my dream world were very real, very vivid, but they did not exist in reality. They were not people I knew in my waking like, not even similar to anyone I knew. Not even composites of anyone I really knew.
My aunt said I was an old soul, and those were maybe people I'd known in my previous life. But I don't think so. They seemed thoroughly modern. They wore regular clothes. In my dreams, we met at real places, places I was familiar with from my waking life.
This sense of leading a double life- one dream, one waking- continued for a number of years, until I was maybe seven or eight, at which point my dreams started to become less vivid and more fragmentary, and I was able to remember less about them.
Eventually, these friends I had in my dream life stopped making appearances in them. I dreamed about actual people, real-life people, when I dreamed about anyone.

I think my stories- my writing- comes from the same place your art does.
Some alternate universe that exists in my mind. Some microcosm.
As an adult, I've never been able to access it as freely as I did when I was young, though.
That's a skill you'll want to hold on to, if you can.

I've heard that a good few writers do this.

It might be related to the subconscious artea in my brian where my jokes come from. I make so many jokes without the need to pre-think them. I used to do improv and I rocked at it because of this part of my brain.

I also laugh at a lot of my own jokes becasue I am just hearing them for the first time as well.

 

[Thorgasm]

I can lick the end of my nose with my tongue[ive not got a big nose before you ask] I don't know if its a common trick, or even a trick. It has its uses though

Paul.

You can pick your nose with your hands full. Very useful. :lol:

 

[Thorgasm]

I've heard that a good few writers do this.

It might be related to the subconscious artea in my brian where my jokes come from. I make so many jokes without the need to pre-think them. I used to do improv and I rocked at it because of this part of my brain.

I also laugh at a lot of my own jokes becasue I am just hearing them for the first time as well.

I think you are right. I do the same thing.

 

[Tucker Case]

I think you are right. I do the same thing.

It might be the difference betweeen who is really funny (assming that we really are funny :2razz and who is just trying too hard.

There is a natural flow to humor, and those who have it never need to try. It stems form the situations. When I write humor, I create the situations, and then the comdey flows from there. It is not an interuption, but a part of the whole.

That is the difference between funny and ****.

 

[Thorgasm]

It might be the difference betweeen who is really funny (assming that we really are funny :2razz and who is just trying too hard.

There is a natural flow to humor, and those who have it never need to try. It stems form the situations. When I write humor, I create the situations, and then the comdey flows from there. It is not an interuption, but a part of the whole.

That is the difference between funny and ****.

I do a lot of quick thinking on my feet. That is necessary for good improv. You can't force it. You can't just use a formula. It is a free and natural process.